Nature's Window

Sunday, February 24, 2008

LONE LIONESS

On the game drive this evening, we came across a lone lioness. Our guide Rexon suspected that she was one of the lionesses who had lost her pride to the Mapogo pride a few months back. As lions naturally live and hunt with other lions in a pride, she is lucky that she has survived on her own for this long. Apparently, she was also lucky to have caught a small baboon to satisfy her hunger. Mmmm..nothing like a little baboon meat to start your day! If you want to challenge yourself and try to figure out the soap opera drama of Djuma's lion prides, check out Djuma's Blog.

THE ELUSIVE AFRICAN WILD DOG

Sure glad the tank was working tonight (Monday morning CAT). Sometimes we can drive and drive and not see any animals, but other days, the reserve is teeming with animals - well in the area where we are driving. The guides always say that you never know what animal may be around the next curve and sure enough, around the corner we drive and there are 4 "blobs" in the middle of the road. These "blobs" turn out to the African Wild Dog, a highly endangered species. How incredibly lucky we all were to witness a rare sighting! Check out The African Wild Dog Conservancy for more info on this species.

PICTURE PRETTY

It's a lazy Sunday morning here (Sunday evening in Africa) and no sooner are we on the tank, when we see this beautiful female giraffe appears on the scene. She obviously wasn't shy - could swear she was posing for a photo shoot!

MOM & ME

I just can't get enough of all the baby animals roaming around. Below we have a female Kudu with her young and I think that everybody would/should recognize the animals in the next picture.