What a marathon.
The wild dogs headed a long way south with the pups and then all the way back up north to Sosigi again. This was quite a trek for the little pups. They got half lucky when the adults caught a Grysbok but this antelope is so small it doesn’t feed many mouths.
With them up the mountain I was left stranded at Sosigi dam where these Yellow-billed Storks and Spoonbills were hunting in the shallows. They occassionally got lucky pegging an unsuspecting Platana lying in the muddy bottoms of the dam.
A huge buffalo herd were down on the Chiredzi river again kicking up dust, just not wanting to be around with me. But I must say once they realise I’m not going to do them any harm, they do settle down somewhat. And I’m sure if I had to spend a few days with them they’d actually start missing me when I left. Well, I can only hope so.
The dogs were off the mountain again at dusk and out of the blue flushed this warthog which really didn’t have a chance with 9 wild dogs on it. Wild dogs would find it really hard to bring down an adult warthog and even usually youngsters like this ‘cos their parents are aggressive defenders. But they weren’t around this evening to help this little fellow.
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