Africam Wiki

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• AA - africam addict - jokingly said about someone who often comes to chat on africam.
• Africammer - someone with a passion for wildlife, who loves to watch and discuss the cams in company of other africammers. Frequently seen on the boma.
• Africam Book (3) - Krukab, also known as Barry or Alf started a book on africam 21/11/2007 where he posts all kinds of interesting titbits about the lodges or animals seen on the cams. For the book, click here.
• AfricamWild - africam group on YouTube where you can post your videos taken on the africam streaming cams or where you can watch videos taken by the members. There are more than a thousand videos. Click here

B

• Bab, babs (plural) - baboon(s)
• Barry's Branch - treestump standing upright in the waterhole at EP
• bbl - be back later
• Big 5 - Buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard, rhino
• Big tusker - elephant with large tusks
• Birds database - birds seen on the cams, click here
• Blogs - how to make a blog on the forum, click here
• Bokkie - an afrikaans word for an unidentified smaller antelope.
• Boma - our boma is a friendly gathering place where like-minded people come together to discuss the sights & sounds on Africam, share camaraderie and often times build lasting friendships.
• Boma Babbles, The - is Africam's monthly newsletter which you receive when you are registered to Africam or you can subscribe to it by either  clicking here or via "My Account".
• Bomite - see Africammer
• Braai - (pronounced bry like in cry) it's a Afrikaans word for barbecue
• brb - be right back
• Bubbles La Mont - nickname given to the hippo who often visits the waterhole at Nkorho.
• Buff(s) - buffalo(s)
• Buffalo - buffalos seen on NK and EP are Cape buffalos, shangaan name - nyathi/nyari, collective name - obstinacy, herd, troop, gang
• Buffering - term used when picture freezes and streaming video stops, you will see the spinning wheel in the center of the image.
• Bush braai - at some lodges guests are treated to a bush braai/barbecue. By sunset they are taken to a clearing in the middle of a open area in the bush, away from the lodge. A location like that is chosen for safety reasons. In the middle of the clearing is an open fire and the guests sit in a semi circle around it to eat.
• Bushie aka Insanebushie - ranger and birdwatcher, is working at Nkorho and helps out with zooming.

C

• cam - shortened word referring to the webcams
• Campbell Scott - owner africam
• CAT - Central African Time
• cheetah: shangaan name - khankankha, collective name - coalition
• Communication tower - tall tower/pole seen near the lodge at NK. It's height is about 75m /83 yards /246 feet. So far only a pied crow has nested on it.
• critter -unidentified animal

D

• Dagga boys - they are old bulls that do not belong to a herd anymore. They form small herds of just a few animals. Dagga means mud and these buffalo like to wallow in mud for extended periods. Mud protects them from insects.
• Databases - for databases of animals seen on the cams, click here
• Directions from Nkorho cam:

Marula tree with the stereo microphones and the waterhole is west,

Nkorho lodge is south,

Kruger Nationel Park is east

Finger of the waterhole is north

• Distance between Nkorho lodge and Elephant Plains cams is 12.1 kilometers or 7.5 miles.
• Distance marula tree (Mike) from cam : 79 meters, or 86 yards, or 260 feet.
• Dogs of Nkorho - Micka, Milo, Seun, Spot.
• Dragon, The - log in the pond at EP.
• Dragons Mountain - termite mound near Old Faithful, named after the range of mountains called Drakensberg. It is a afrikaans name meaning, "drakens" = dragons, "berg" = mountain.
• Drums heard on cams are calling tourists to come to dinnner.

E

• Eagle's perch - dead treestump in the waterhole at NK.
• Egyp & Tian - nickname for the egyptian geese.
• Elephant : collective names - parade, memory, herd, flock, overabundance.
• Elephant Plains Game Lodge, to go to their homepage click here
• Elephant Plains is 12.1 kilometer or 7.5 miles from Nkorho.
• Elephant Plains pan is man made and it is filled from a borehole.
• Elephant Plains pan size approx. :

length - 18 meters

width - 9 meters

depth - 1.7 meters

distance from river - 50 meters

distance from lodge - 140 meters

Elevation above sea level

NK is about 370m

EP is about 390m

• Ellie/elly - elephant
• EP - Elephant Plains, link to homepage click here
• eta - edited to add

F

• Facebook - Join Africam on facebook, click here
• Finger at NK - the small end of the north end of Nkorho pan, it is situated north of the cam.
• Fire King - fire hose used on most of the lodges. It's tank holds 800 liters / 211 gallons of water which, depending on the strength the water is squirted, will be empty in 25 - 35 minutes. Refilling it can be done in 1 minute. The length of the hose is 150 meters. For pictures go to Barry's Africam Book (3), click here.
• Flamcam - flamingo cam, one of our streaming cams situated at Kamfers Dam in Kimberley. Read more about them on the Save the Flamingo site. You can also be a flamingophile.
• Flop and drop - a rhino visiting NK frequently and given this nickname by a guest due to it's funny way of lying down.
• Florescence - to blossom
• Freeze, froze, frozen - when the cam is frozen (stuck) it means the end of the world.

G

• Giraffe : shangaan name - nthutlwa, collective names - journey, herd.
• Google Earth coordinates:

Nkorho pan - S 24 43'53.8 E031 35'52.9.

Elephant Plains pan - S 24°44'38.9" E 31°28'30.5".

• Graveyard pan - A few years ago some very destructive elephants pushed down a lot of trees around the pan. First glance at the pan after the incident gave the impression of a graveyard, hence the name. It is a waterhole 200 meters north east from NK.
• Guck - nickname given to the egyptian geese

H

• Hiccups of the cam is when the animals look like they are jerky in their movements and it is caused by buffering of the video stream and so lose some frames of video in the stream.
• Hippo : shangaan name - mpfubu, collective names - bloat, crash, loft, herd, raft, thunder.
• How to post links on the forum - look here
• How to resize pictures on the forum - look here
• How to start a blog on the forum - look here
• How to take and post pictures on the forum - look here
• How to upload videos on the forum - look here
• Howwa's dragon - name given to the dead treestump in the waterhole at EP. 
• Hyeana/hyena : shangaan name - mphisi, also known as whoooper, collective names - clan, cackle

I

• ID - identification
• Impala: shangaan name - mhala, collective name - herd
• Impie - impala
• Induna - elephant or big tusker with the second largest tusks seen on Tembe streaming cam. The name  means "advisor" or "big leader" in Zulu.
• Ingwe - leopard (shangaan)
• Isilo - elephant or big tusker with the largest tusks seen on Tembe streaming cam. The name means "king" in Zulu.

J

• Jackals : shangaan name - mangawana, SS jackal - sidestriped jackal, BB jackal - blackbacked jackal, collective name - pack
• Jacques - zoomie at NK
• Jon Oliver - owner africam
• Jordaan's Male - male leopard, for more info click here
• Just missed it club - jokingly said, when you just missed a sighting.

K

• Kaalkol -distance from NK lodge is about 500 meters.
• Karin- manager Nkorho Lodge
• Karula - female leopard, for more info click here
• Kudu : shangaan name - hlongo
• Kudu Corner - In the beginning stages of NK that waterhole got it's name. It is situated on the boundaries of Nkorho, Torchwood and the Kruger and it forms a corner. It was very dry that winter and every time the drive went past it, there were kudu's at the waterhole. It is 800 meters from NK pan.

L

• Landie, landi, landy - open air vehicle used for transporting visitors on game drives. They can carry 10 persons, but at NK they like to keep it to 6 persons per vehicle if possible, for the comfort of the passengers.
• Leopard: shangaan name - ingwe, collective name - leap, lepe
• Leopard database - leopards seen on the cams, click here
• Links - how to post links on the forum - look here
• Lion: shangaan name - nghala, collective name - pride
• Lion blogs - click here
• Lister - water pump heard on NK (sound often heard on tuesdays)
• Little 5 - Buffalo weaver, elephant shrew, antlion, leopard tortoise, rhino beetle.
• Logs about mammals and birds seen on the cams, can be found here
• Londoz - large male rhino with large front horn
• Lonesome George - lone wildebeest often seen on NK
• Lurker - someone reading the forum without actively participating.

M

• Mafufunyane - male leopard, for more info click here
• Magnificent 7 - Big 5 plus cheetah and african wild dog.
• Mammals database - mammals seen on the cams, click here
• Manyeleti brothers - two lion brothers, for more info click here
• Manyeleti river - river near Elephant Plains lodge, meaning "place of the stars".
• Mapogo coalition/boys - a brotherhood of male lions, for more information click here
• Matimba - male leopard, for more info click here
• Microphones on Nkorho - there is one microphone on each end of the termite mound to the left of the marula tree and one on the cam tree.
• Microphone on Elephant Plains - about 20 meters away and to the left of the cam when it faces the waterhole.
• Mike - marula tree, there used to be microphones on the tree, but not anymore.
• Moderators - members apppointed by africam to help out, composed of volunteers. See who they are, click here
• Morning parade - when the animals come to the pan to drink in the morning.
• Morning song - the first bird call of the day to announce the upcoming morning parade.

N

• Natural pan - visit our Bush school to read all about natural pans, or click here
• Ncila (N'Chila/Nzila/Inthula) - male leopard with a kink in the lower part of his tail, for more info click here
• Newbie/ nu-bee - new member. If you are new, introduce yourself here.
• New day - certain topics are closed daily and a new topic is started at midnight in South Africa (CAT)
• Newington Male (aka Pink Nose aka Tombele/Tumbela) - male leopard with a pinkish coloured nose, for more info click here
• Nghala(shangaan) - lion
• NK - Nkorho Bush Lodge, situated south of the cam, link to homepage click here
• Nkorho is 12.1 kilometer or 7.5 miles from Elephant Plains
• Nkorho - means yellow-billed hornbill in Shangaan (local native language), pronunciation - "nn-core-oh"
• Nkorho cam tree - what's on it? at the bottom is the power supply, the big box above it is the audio and video unit, above that is the cam with a steel roof over it, on the left branch is a IR light with housing and a mic, on the branch on the right is 3 IR lights with housing. For a picture of it, see Kru-kab bowser bc's Africam book, first page.
• Nkorho pan Is a natural pan, filled from a borehole with pipes via a lister pump, approx. size:

length - 26 meter, or 28 yards, or 86 feet;

width - 20 meters, or 22 yards, or 68 feet

• Ntima - female leopard, for more info click here
• Nyeleti - female leopard

O

• Old Faithfull - nickname given to buffalo skull on NK
• Owners africam - Campbell Scott, Jon Oliver, Paul Penzhorn

P

• Pan - another word for the waterhole
• Paul Penzhorn -owner africam
• Pets - do you have a pet at home and you wish to share it with your fellow africammers, look here.
• pics - referring to the word "pictures" mostly taken from the webcams
• Pictures on the forum:

how to take and post pictures on the forum, look here

how to resize pictures on the forum, look here

• Pink Nose (aka Newington Male aka Tombela/Tubela) - for info click here
• Polar bear - expression created in chat for when the cam goes to white out after the dawn light starts while the cam is still in the night time settings and lasts till they switch to daylight settings. Jokingly said that polar bears are there then.
• Porcupine: collective name - prickle
• Post - the reply or comment made in a thread
• PM - private message, on the bottom of every post is a series of buttons, the PM AUTH button is to send that particular person a personal message.

Q

R

• Raffie - giraffe
• Ranger - Accredited field guides who undergo indepth training at several levels before qualifying to guide in Big Five territory, see FGASA
• Reboot - it's a computer term for restarting your computer, it boots up all the programs.
• Rhino - rhinos seen on EP and NK are white rhinos, shangaan name for white rhino - mkhumbi, collective names - crash, herd
• Ripape Female - female leopard, for more info click here
• Rocks seen on south side/left as seen from the cam, are there to cover the water outlet pipe from the lister pump, to help prevent elephants from ripping the water pipe out of the ground.
• Roy - young male hippo visiting EP pan regularly

S

• Sabi Sands - is a private game reserve adjacent to the Kruger National Park, made up of private game reserves and lodges, like Nkorho Bush Lodge and Elephant Plains Game Lodge. There are no fences between lodges, game reserves and the Kruger National Park and animals can roam freely.
• Safari - Safari is Swahili (a language spoken in East Africa) for journey. The word has has been incorporated into the English language over the past 100 years of so, to mean a hunting trip or a journey to look at wildlife. It is only in recent years that its use has become more common in Southern Africa. (explanation from Landi)
• Safari - female leopard who is blind in her right eye, for more info click here
• Salaxeye - female leopard, for more info click here
• Saseka - female leopard, for more info click here
• Sentinel, The - nickname for an impala male seen on NK which has only one horn, the other is broken off.
• Shangaan - local native language
• Sightings log - birds 2006 - 2008, click here
• Sightings log - birds 2009, click here 
• Sightings log - mammals 2006 - 2008, click here
• Sightings log - mammals 2009, click here
• Skewy/Wonky - nickname given to an elephant with a deformed tusk and leg; Skewy died February 2009, for more info  click here
• Snaggletooth -nickname given to a local lioness with a deformed or injured jaw and mouth.
• Sounds - for the sounds heard on the cams , click here

T

• TE - Tembe National Elephant Park
• Tembe National Elephant Park - "where the world's largest elephants roam wild" for their homepage click here
• Ticker - a line of text scrolling just above the cam windows, announcing a problem with one of the cams.
• Topic/thread - the start of a subject in the forum, where comments or replies can be made
• Torchwood - property north of NK
• Tombela/Tumbela (aka Newingtone Male aka Pink Nose) - male leopard, for more info click here
• Tracker - person who sits on the little chair on the front of the jeeps, looking for signs of the animals.
• Tsalala Pride - two lionesses named after theTsalala pan they frequented, for more information, click here
• Tweeper - a member of africam who watches the cams and sends out alerts/tweeps when animals are spotted.
• Twitter/tweep - a program used to send out alerts. When an animal is seen on the cams, a tweeper sends out an alert/tweep so everybody who follows africam on Twitter gets the alert. For more info about following africam on Twitter, click here.
• Tyson - male leopard, for more info click here

U

• UMO - unidentified moving object

V

•  Video - how to upload a video on the forum, look here

W

• Wartie - warthog
• Weaver motel - nest of redbilled buffalo weavers at EP
• WH - waterhole
• White Cloth -female leopard, for more info click here
• Wildebeest : shangaan name - hongonyi, seen on cam at NK and EP is the blue wildebeest
• Wildie - wildebeest
• Whoooper - hyeana

X

Y

Z

• Zeb/zebbie - zebra
• Zebra: shangaan name - idube/mangwa, collective names - harem, dazzle
• Zoomi/e - a person manning the camera