Hyaenas love to play in water. The carcass gave them more reason to enjoy it.
Who killed what?
That’s a bit of a mystery this morning.
The dogs hunted to the west again and we were hot on their heels but not hot enough. As they took off across country we followed but couldn’t keep up. When we did find them no less than 10 minutes later, they had already consumed whatever it was and were just crunching the last couple of bones.
As they raced back east towards the den we took the high road and got to Manyuchi pan before them, and found 2 other wild dogs from the pack hassling 2 hyaenas on an impala kill. It seemed like the dogs had killed it and the hyaenas took it over. The alpha pups were on the scene too but weren’t of any help. Any slight advance by a hyaena and they would scatter.
Then the rest of the dog party arrived and what an ordeal. They took on the 2 hyaenas which had no option but to settle in for the fight. Backsides together and facing in opposite directions they were bombarded by the dog attack. But the dogs weren’t really interested in them, they just wanted the carcass which they easily retrieved.
All the commotion brought in reinforcements and 6 hyaenas then took on the dogs. The dogs braced up to them briefly but with no more food to fight over they headed home.
Then a hyaena arrived with the horns from a fresh bushbuck kill. Where did that come from? AND just up the way lying in the road was the skin of a freshly killed porcupine.
Manyuchi sure seemed like a war zone today.
Not satisfied with enough action I headed east to find a lioness chasing zebra in a foiled attempt before she headed into the hills.
AND then at Bandama pan the crowds arrived too. Herds of zebra, eland, a number o giraffe, warthog, impala and about 30 elephants having great fun in the mud.
This cow approached my vehicle not concerned at all, stretched her trunk to sniff the bull bar and moved on. The camera and I were both in the vehicle.
Be sure to stay tuned to see all these video sequences. I’ll broadcast them at a later date when I’m next away.
Hi Kim
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Keep well
Lisa
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