Gus Mills, hyena expert and ‘the cheerful pessimist of the Kalahari’, has died

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His nephew recalled that the children were taught to chant, “Hyaenas are beautiful!” as often as possible.On visits to Kruger National Park, he got them out of bed at midnight to look for bushbabies and again at five in the morning to search for big cats. Wildlife was often most active at inconvenient hours, and […]

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