Tumuga Hunting Safaris
Our Species List:
South Africa offers you the opportunity to hunt a wide variety of species. South Africa is the only country where you can still hunt the entire Big Five, including elephant, rhino (white), buffalo, lion and leopard. Our country offers some of the continent's finest hunting opportunities with a wide variety of other species. Animals that offer exceptionally good hunting opportunities include the greater kudu, blue wildebeest, nyala, Cape eland, southern impala, common waterbuck, klipspringer, and more. The hunting of certain species does require CITES permits through Nature Conservation.
South Africa is home to twenty-nine antelope species, more than any other country in Africa. Twenty-six of these species are huntable and seven of them can be found only in South Africa. South Africa is the only country that offers the "Mini Five" - five small antelope from the following group: grey duiker, red duiker, blue duiker, suni, oribi and Cape grysbuck.
South Africa also offers wonderful bird shooting opportunities. There is a great variety of birds available, including fourteen huntable species of duck, two species of goose, ten types of pheasant, guinea fowl, pigeons, doves and quail.
The following species are available for hunting at Tumuga Hunting Safaris.
Baboon (Chacma) |
Male: Female:
Weight: 14 - 17kg (30 - 37 pounds)
Shoulder height: 61cm (24 inches)
Lifespan:
20 – 30 years
Trophy Fee: $110
Animal Profile:
Baboons are opportunistic omnivores and selective feeders. Grass makes up a large part of their diet, along with berries, seeds, pods, blossoms, leaves, roots, bark and sap from a variety of plants. Baboons also eat insects and small quantities of meat, such as fish, shellfish, hares, birds, vervet monkeys, and small antelopes.
Predators & Threats:
Baboons are found in surprisingly varied habitats and are extremely adaptable. The major requirements for any habitat seems to be water sources and safe sleeping places in either tall trees or on cliff faces. When water is readily available, baboons drink every day or two, but they can survive for long periods by licking the night dew from their fur.
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Blesbuck |
Male: Female:
Weight: 59 - 61kg (130 - 134 pounds)
Shoulder height: 90 - 95cm (35 - 37 inches)
Lifespan:
23 years
Trophy Fee: $450
Animal Profile:
Diet:
Predators & Threats:
Habitat:
The head of the Wildebeest is large and box-like and both males and females have curving horns. The front end of the body is heavily built, the hindquarters slender and the legs spindly. The coat is gray and has a black mane and a beard which may be black or white.
Diet:
Lions, cheetahs, hunting dogs, hyenas
Habitat:
When alarmed, individuals react in a variety of ways. If they are in forest or thick bush, they may "freeze" in one position and remain very still, their coloring camouflaging them. Sometimes they will sink to the ground and lie flat, or they may bound away, making a series of hoarse barks. When surprised in the open, they sometimes stand still or slowly walk to the nearest cover.
Diet:
Bushbucks are forest-edge antelopes. They live in habitat including rain forests, mountain forests, forest-savannah mosaics and bush savannahs.
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Bushpig
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Male: Female:
Weight: 17kg (37 pounds)
Lifespan:
31 years
Trophy Fee: $600
Animal Profile:
Diet:
Predators & Threats:
Lions, hyenas, and leopards.
Habitat:
The Duiker with its long legs is able to run fast for some distance. All duikers freeze and crouch to escape detection. With their heads held close to the ground, Duikers can move easily through the dense vegetation of forests and bushlands. They regularly run through these areas and when disturbed, plunge into thick cover to hide. This trait is the source of the name "duiker," which in Dutch means "diver."
Diet:
Eagles, lions, leopards, among many others
Habitat:
Environment and habitat can influence the overall body shape and coloration of animals: Thus, the duiker living in open habitat is longer-legged, less hunched-backed and lighter in color (tawny or gray) than the species that inhabits the dense, dark forests. |
Eland (Cape)
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Male: Female:
Weight: 460kg (1014 pounds)
Shoulder height: 150cm (59 inches)
Lifespan:
15 – 20 years
Trophy Fee: $2250
Animal Profile:
Herbivore. They are browsers, preferring leaves from bushes, twigs, certain fruits, bulbs, and roots rather than grass.
Predators & Threats:
Plains dwellers of East, Central, and Southern Africa. They stay away from forests, swamps and deserts.
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Gemsbuck (Oryx)
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Male: Female:
Weight: 210kg (463 pounds)
Shoulder height: 120cm (47 inches)
Lifespan:
18 – 28 years
Trophy Fee: $1350
Animal Profile:
Herbivore. Seedpods, fruits, and grass.
Predators & Threats: Dry savannah woodland, rocky areas, sand dunes; Kalahari and Namib Deserts, Southern Africa.
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Red Hartebeest
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Male: Female:
Weight: 105 - 136kg (231 - 300 pounds)
Shoulder height: 119cm (47 inches)
Lifespan:
12 – 15 years Trophy Fee: $1100
Animal Profile:
The Hartebeest feeds almost entirely on grass, but is not very selective and quite tolerant of poor-quality food.
Predators & Threats:
Hartebeest are mainly found in medium and tall grasslands, including savannahs. They are more tolerant of high grass and woods than other antelopes.
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Impala (Southern)
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Male: Female:
Weight: 32 - 52kg (71 - 115 pounds)
Shoulder height: 86cm (34 inches)
Lifespan:
12 – 15 years
Trophy Fee: $360
Animal Profile:
Herbivore. Green grass, flowers, herbs, sprouts, green foliage, seedpods. The impala is both a grazer (eating plants on the ground) and a browser (eating leaves on trees). Most herbivores are one or the other.
Predators & Threats:
Short grass with medium or dense stands of bush, permanent water supply.
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Jackal (Black-backed) |
Male: Female:
Weight: 5,5 - 10kg (12 - 22 pounds)
Shoulder height: 38cm (15 inches)
Lifespan:
8 Yrs (Wild)
Up to 14 Yrs (in Captivity) Trophy Fee: $90
Animal Profile:
Black-Backed Jackals are omnivores and they feed on a variety of prey such as gazelle, hares, rodents, birds, lizards, snakes, young ungulates, insects, fruit, berries, domestic livestock and carrion. Those that inhabit southern Africa will also feed on fur seal cubs.
Predators & Threats:
Leopards
Habitat:
Leaves, fruits, berries, shoots and succulents.
Predators & Threats:
Steep rocky outcrops
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Kudu (Greater)
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Male: Female:
Weight: 120 - 210kg (264 - 463 pounds)
Shoulder height: 135cm (53 inches)
Lifespan:
ost have a chevron of white hair between the eyes and a crest of long hair along the spine as well as a fringe under the chin. Trophy Fee: $2500 Above 54": $3000 Diet:
Kudus are browsers and eat leaves and shoots from a variety of plants. In dry seasons, they eat wild watermelons and other fruit for the liquid they provide. Predators & Threats:
Greater Kudus are found in woodlands and bushlands.
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Nyala
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Male: Female:
Weight: 55 - 68kg (121 - 150 pounds)
Shoulder height: 97cm (38 inches)
Lifespan:
Up to 16 years
Trophy Fee: * $3250
Animal Profile:
Nyala feed upon grasses, leaves, twigs, fruits and flowers. They drink daily when water is plentiful but they are able to survive in areas when water is only seasonally available.
Predators & Threats:
Nyala are found near dense bush in the dry savanna woodlands of southern Africa. They prefer areas that are close to a water source and good quality grass.
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Reedbuck (Common) |
Male: Female:
Weight: 70kg (154 pounds)
Shoulder height: 80cm (31 inches)
Lifespan:
9 years
Trophy Fee: * POR
Animal Profile:
The Common Reedbuck makes a number of characteristic noises, including a piercing whistle through the nostrils, and a distinctive ‘popping’ sound, caused by the inguinal glands, heard when the reedbuck jumps.
Grazer
Leopard, hyena, wild dogs
Tall grass or reeds near water.
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Steenbuck
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Male: Female:
Weight: 11 - 13kg (24 - 29 pounds)
Shoulder height: 52cm (20 inches)
Lifespan:
7 years
Trophy Fee: $320
Animal Profile:
Steenboks feed upon grasses, roots, fruits and tubers. They rarely drink as they obtain the moisture they need from their diet.
The main predators of steenboks are leopards, jackals, caracal, African wild cat, martial eagle and pythons.
If they feel threatened by a predator they will lie low in the grass. If the predator comes to close they will leap up and run away in a zigzag pattern to try to shake off their pursuer. Habitat:
Despite their name, Waterbucks are not fond of swimming, but they always live near water and will wade in to hide from predators. Waterbucks don't form herds. Females range alone or in pairs and young males form small bachelor groups until old enough to stake out individual territories, fighting others with their horns. Only male Waterbucks have horns.
Diet:
Mainly hyenas, leopards, and lions; also cheetahs, hunting dogs, and crocodiles.
Habitat:
Diet:
Lions are their major predators; others are hyenas, wild dogs, leopards, and cheetahs.
Habitat:
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