Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Safari Videos: Part 2


What Do Angry Giraffes Look Like?

When I think of giraffes, I think supermodel tall, gangly, gentle vegetarians. But they have to compete and survive at some point or fight for their territory or their long-legged woman. So what does that look like? We witnessed this brutal aspect to these creatures' lives during one of our afternoon safaris.


The giraffes' horns tend to calcify from fights like these. Their horns can inflict injuries but apparently fights rarely get serious. Normally they size each other up and after a few swings and head butts it's all over. When they do get serious though, it ends up with one of them skulking off or sometimes in death.



What Does A Thirsty Ranger Look Like?

It was late afternoon and cocktail hour was fast approaching but perhaps not soon enough for our ranger. We were driving on the sandy river bed out searching for our first lions and nearly missed them.  



To be fair, our trusty ranger was informed by another that some lions were spotted in a particular area and he was on a mission to get us there. And get us there he did, we ended up sighting lions on three separate occasions during our safari. 


Fortunately, preparing these videos weren't as painful this time around so not a lot of cussing was required. However, just for finishing them, I say, hel ja!

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