Elephant dares to cross: Video
Published by Wildcaster 1 year, 1 month ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, conservation, documentary, dog, ecotraining, education, elephants, endangered species, experience, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, IUCN Red List, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, polls, predators, rabies, teach, video, wild dogs, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, zebra, zimbabwe.The bare facts.
In the last 8 weeks we have lost 18 wild dogs to rabies. Brownie died last night.
Whisky and Stitch are still looking great and if they make it, they have the potential to start up a whole new pack together. Wouldn’t that be just wonderful? But that would only come about this time next year. It’s a long wait and they still have many obstacles to cross before they get there.
My vehicle problems just don’t want to go away. Now my second vehicle is also down with a broken chassis and spring. We sure put these vehicles through their paces with all the off road travel we do, so not surprising they have the odd hiccup. Although I’d appreciate it if they didn’t both hiccup at the same time.
I limped around the reserve and found Whisky and Stitch early up in the north.
And then limped on to Sosigi dam via Manyuchi pan where some zebra were drinking.
I spent most of the day at Sosigi dam hoping the elephant bulls would come and swim. But I guess it’s just not hot enough for that. Several of them did venture down for a drink and the big dude crossed the dam to get to his mates.
The stunning moon rise on the way back to camp made up for it.
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Well, darn it. I’ve got my fingers crossed for the dogs. I wonder whatever became of the hyena that one of them bit a few days ago.
I’m glad to see that these frustrations haven’t curbed your sense of humor, in the post below, but I don’t think it’s such a good idea for you to be limping around in vehicles with blown suspension. Is there any way we can help you out?
Thanks Kimberley. I’ve got all the assistance I need from the reserve. They’re really great. But thanks anyway. Were you planning on flying me in a few Toyota’s? Still hoping Stitch and Whisky are going to make. And hope that hyaena didn’t contract rabies. I haven’t seen it again, but that doesn’t mean it’s not around.
New Toyota’s? What am I, Elvis?
I was thinking more along the lines of a modest donation through paypal. Glad to know you’ve got it covered though.
For what it’s worth, Stitch and Whisky are great names to buck the odds with.
Cheers Kim,
Kimberley