With apologies to any more sensitive folk who may find this distressing, here's a python (kept in captivity) killing a chicken at Le Thiossane camp, where we also recorded the pig, hyenas and jackals. At the beginning of the recording, you'll hear the chi

OK, so it's not exactly Chris Watson's snoring cheetah, but we're fond of this recording, and we're filing it with our wildlife sounds for want of a better category. This sow - living at the same camp as the hyenas and jackals we recorded - was trying to

These two ten month old, orphaned spotted hyaena pups (reared in captivity) were still being bottle fed, partly - a task which both they and Alain (the Frenchman raising them) seemed to love. Here, you can hear Alain feeding them breakfast - four or five

As well as three jackals, Alain is raising two orphaned spotted hyaenas, now ten months old, which he is also hoping to release into a reserve one day soon. Raised almost entirely in captivity and accustomed to interacting with humans, it was amazing how

These three jackals were hand reared by Frenchman Alain in Western Senegal after they were orphaned (he intends to release them into a reserve if/when possible). Their vocalisations were extremely diverse, including barking and the growling and spitting y

There were thousands and thousands of crabs in the area around Mbodiene, Senegal - where we took our two week holiday from the bikes. Bex was sitting on a bank trying to record the sound of one crab digging and bubbling away in its hole when this one, a n

This is the first of several wildlife recordings we'll be posting over the next few days from our two week stay with Alain and Alicia, at their camp (Le Thiossane, a wildlife paradise) next to a lagoon by Senegal's Atlantic Coast. If you were near a crick

The rains in Senegal, West Africa, are a cause for celebration. In this downpour in St Louis, you can hear children playing. Around them, people were washing their clothes, scrubbing their goats and generally making the most of the rain. Senegal is, anecd

We've tentatively identified this toad as Bufo xeros, the Subdesert Toad. Our identification was visual and based on written descriptions of the toad's call but, as always, we are happy to be corrected. These toads were numerous and very vocal through the

While we had Terjit Oasis to ourselves at night, during the daytime it thronged with visitors from around Mauritania, in Terjit to visit the oasis or for the date harvest. The day we were there, a Mauritanian woman and her daughters had hired a group of m