Look, it's no Kruger park, but at Edinburgh Zoo you can spot some dassies and other South African favourites.
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Pythons aren't actually venomous, but their razor-sharp teeth are capable of chewing up dassies and geese in the wild.
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Hartlaub's gulls and kelp gulls also forage in the area, while dassies can be spotted sunning themselves on the surrounding rocks.
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It feeds largely on warm-blooded prey like small antelope, monkeys, game birds and dassies, but also takes leguaans and even crocodiles.
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Table Mountain My favorite photograph of me as a little girl is the one where I was on Table Mountain playing with the dassies.
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The whole experience, the stunning views and the cute dassies combine to offer one of the most spectacular experiences as a tourist in South Africa.
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He came walking calmly down the road, into the undergrowth and appeared on the rocks across from us, chasing dassies, who loudly protested, shared Oelsen.