Wild Dogs Status: Video
Published by Wildcaster 2 years ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, bush knowledge, cites, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, endangered species, flickr, giraffe, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, hunting, hyaenas, IUCN Red List, kids, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, polls, predators, teach, video, wild dogs, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.It was one of those days. One that you don’t really want to repeat too often.
If I had been in the field all day things would have been a lot better but instead I found myself spending extended time behind my computer screen. Not a happy place for me. Makes me appreciate how lucky I am that I don’t have to spend my whole working day staring at the screen like so many around the world today.
So forget about my rough day. I’m just so happy to be doing what I do.
The wild dogs must have been really lucky this morning as they were all well fed and had little interest in moving this evening. But eventually they did. Not that it was of any good to us. The terrain and country they took us through got thicker and thicker. Until it got to the stage where I couldn’t turn back. So we pushed ahead through some of the thickest and seemingly impenetrable bush. The girls were spread out as flat as they could on the back avoiding being swept off by branches. Like a bulldozer we soldiered on and eventually came out on a track as it was getting dark.
But somewhere in there, in that this mass of undergrowth we came across 3 hyaenas. What they were doing in there is mystery. And there was no way of getting around to investigate.
Happy to be out the ‘jungle’ we headed back to camp.
(BE SURE TO CHECK OUT YESTERDAYS BLOG BELOW: “Wild dogs hunting in woodland”. I was only able to upload this earlier due to technical problems.)
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Very interesting info on Wild Dogs. I guess the girls are at an age where they are like sponges with respect to the fabulous bush world around them. I enjoyed Penny’s questions about the elephants and Lindy’s fascination with photography. Sharp kids. The umbrella tree woodland is beautiful. I hope most of the vegetation underneath is native with few invasives. I think there was a similar woodland in the northern part of Kruger, with many butterflies.
Luckily not many invasives here. They get dealt with pretty quickly by management. Plenty butterflies here too. I just love this woodland area!
That is great - with respect to invasives. 99% of the grass in California is non-native - i.e. there is very little of the original left. There are also many non-native trees. When growing up in the bush near the Limpopo as kids, we joined Girl Guides whose activities were very bush-oriented. One of the projects for a badge was learning about some of the many trees in the area, by pasting pressed leaves, flowers, bark and pods (where possible) into a notebook. It was one way to start learning about the surrounding bush.
I love the dogs that were carrying the sticks! Great job and very interesting!