In the hopes of seeing lions, we all decided to travel to this park. Departure time was 4:00 am! This reserve park was established in 1895 and has 24,000 hectas of land. It is beautiful! We did not luck out to see lions but saw some other spatacular sights.
Large bull elephants. For most of the time these are solitary animals except when it is time to mate. A pride of elephants consist of one bull elephant, multiple females and the young. Only when the bull elephants is challenged and defeated will another take is place.
This dude just romped in the mud to cool himself off and is then spraying dirt all over himself to keep the bugs and tics off. I mentioned this way of showering to Jules, but she passed…
Hyenna returning from his night searches for a kill. They will separate at night to cover more ground and territory looking for prey and will regroup during the day.
Vultures cooling themselves in a tree prior to taking flight. These animals are extremely important in the circle of life. They are scavengers and without them, there would be a lot of disease due to the decaying carcasses. They will float in the sky using the thermals to extreme heights looking for pray and then will float down to eat. Their eyesight is better then eagles.
Warthogs and zebras sharing a water hole…no Poland Springs here. The zebras will commonly stand together this way so that they each have a different lookout for lions and other critters that want to eat them. They defend themselves with strong leg kicks.
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