Fauna

You must know that, thanks to a policy of exemplary protection, in South Africa more species can be animal (900 species of birds) that in any other country of the continent. Five Great, that is to say, from Leon one, leopards, buffalos, rhinos and elephants, populate numerous South African natural reserves. Equally numerous species of gacelas exist.

A great amount of seals has chosen like address the length of the South African coasts.

Long ago captured and eaten by the men, the South African seals of skin settled down in the continent as of years 1930.

Scientifically speaking, he would be more correct to speak of marine lion. It has small ears and it can use his fins as mainland legs instead of to crawl by the ground, since the seals do. Several places exist where these can be found " seals with ears": In the coast Victory & Alfred of the Cabo, in Duiker, in Is Island… But the greatest colony is in Kleinsee, in an immense diamond mine property of Of Beers

They are counted near 500,000 in more than three kilometers! between the months of June and October the frank whales come to settle to South African waters.

Originating of the Antarctic, the mammals cross more than 8,000 km to arrive until there.

The small locality of Hermanus, located to about 120 km of Cape Town, is one of the best places to observe them

These great mammals can get to measure up to 16 meters in length. One is clear them thanks to his heads covered with callosities.