Departure time was 6:00…no lie or rest for the wary. With the summer heat, the animals will be up and about in the early morning…rest for most of the day…and pick themselves up in the evening…so we are off. I will only identify new animals by name…the rest will be just pics…
African buffalo…one of the “Big Five” which include lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and the buffalo. The “Big Five” are identified to be the most ferocious with regards to humans. These things have an amazing sense of smell and hearing but their eye sight is the pits.
A mom rhino and her calf. These things are eating machines…and that’s all they eat are greens…but a lot of them. RyRy, Seano and Jackie…I plan on taking one home so you will not have to mow the lawn any more…they are the best lawn mowers around. Just make sure you do not get between the mom and her calf because she will take you down.
These beautiful and ancient creatures are being hunted to extinction for their horns only. Marc informed us that all of the crime family nations…from the Chinese to the Irish to the Italians and the Japanese are all involved with the killing of rhinos for their horns only. The black market price is $75,000/kilo and an average size of a horn has 5 kilos…so you do the math.
Miscellaneous pics –
For the afternoon we headed to a cat rehabilitation center – Pam and Kate…you would have loved this! This is an organization that will take stray or orphaned cats, nurse them back to health, raise them for a time and either release them to the wild or keep them for breeding.
One of these is top of my list for next years Christmas card
Yes…the cat is alive! She just ate and really has no interest in us. Human attacks by cheetahs are very rare…we just kill them for the sport of it!
The major concern for cheetahs is that as their population continues to decrease, their gene pool continues to decrease as well and they are then susceptible to more and more diseases. They are down to a population of less than 10,000 so alot has to be done to protect these beautiful creatures. They reach 70 miles per hour unless than 4 seconds…they beat NASCAR.
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