Friday, June 14, 2019

Serious Animals of the Serengeti

We gnu we'd like seeing the wildebeest migration. Without fancy BBC drone footage, it looks like this:
The zebras and wildebeests are old buddies, because symbiosis.
If you look longer, you can tell zebra apart by their butts.
They snuggle by resting their heads on each other's butts.
That makes the giraffes jealous.
Anyway, where there's large herds, there's kills.
It's not the prettiest thing, really.
This is as close as we saw to seeing a kill actually happen.

We did not see hearty feasts of hartebeest.
Mostly, the cats we saw were resting.
Including baby lions,
teenage lions,
and old lions.