Impala’s one second glory: Video
Published by Wildcaster 1 year, 6 months ago Tags: adventure, africa, animal kingdom, blogumentary, bush knowledge, conservation, documentary, ecotraining, education, experience, flickr, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, hunting, impala, kill, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, pamushana, peace parks, photos, podcasting, polls, predators, teach, video, wild dogs, wildcasting, wildlife, wildlife documentary, zimbabwe.Ahhhhhhhhh!!!
Yes that was me stuck behind my computer all day as I couldn’t get out due my vehicles being down. But I can assure you I WILL be out again tomorrow! I couldn’t take another whole day in the office.
I just hope Whisky and Stitch are doing well. They were fine yesterday so I’m pretty sure they’ll be okay still, not that I could do anything if they weren’t.
As I didn’t get out I today, the clip is from a few days ago and the photos.
The only impala story I have was many years ago when I was managing a game reserve in Botswana. The reserve was on the “great, grey, greasy” Limpopo River, which forms the international boundary between Botswana and South Africa.
My camp was on the river too, but at this time of year the river was reduced to a sandy bed with a few scattered pools. These became focal drinking points for game in the dry season.
I was in camp around midday when I heard gun shots a ways upstream. Jumping on my motorcycle I raced up there to find and impala ram with a bullet hole through its rib cage running up the bank and away back into Botswana. Looking down into the river at one of those last remaining pools of water, was a dead impala ram.
I climbed off the motorcycle and strode down to the impala. The water was on the Botswana side of the river. I looked into the thick bush on the South African side of the river but couldn’t see anybody, although I was sure they were there watching me. In my very best English and Afrikaans mixed, I gave them a piece of my mind with words I never thought I’d ever use! I then hoisted the impala ram over my shoulder (not sure I could do that today. This was about more than 20 years ago), climbed up the river bank, strapped it onto my motorcycle and rode back to camp.
About a year later I had to meet with my neighbour across the river from me in South Africa. We had a good chat and then he was telling me about his hunting incident.
He said he had this important client, the Postmaster from Krugersdorp, and they were hunting down along the river. “ We shot 2 impala and before we had time to retrieve them this huge guy arrived on a motor bike. He rushed down to the river and then swore at us like I’ve never been sworn at before. The postmaster too was shocked! But then this huge guy just grabbed the impala and walked away with it over his shoulder!”
I never admitted to it as I had to chuckle about this “huge guy”. I’m everything but that at 5ft 10.
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Due to the fact that both the cars have broken down, maybe you have the possibility to use off-the-road bikes. This should benefit the following:
1. No more engine troubles;
2. Cycling keeps you warm, when the air is too cold for Africans;
3. It will be a sensation for the lions, the word would be spread among them:”Hey, there is a new service in Malilingwe, they call it “meals on wheels”
Hope you will be back on track soon, I always enjoy your bloq and video.
Reading the history of the rabies virus among the wild dogs:
There is decided to make an intervention in the natural process, the dogs and some hyenaes were inoculated. And some dogs were euthanized.
What are the main decision keys to do so? The fact that an animal is rare, or the fact that the origin of the virus is not natural?
Kind regards
most mammals do not have ‘casual sex’, they rather propagate then have sexual intercourse as we would know it. This is a prime example. the other creatures that would do it for pleasure other than humans would be dolphins and primates, so much for behaving like animals!
i meant they would propagate THAN have sexual intercourse., correction.
I love your story about the impala hunters! How ironic that you should meet one of the hunters 20 yrs later, and hear their side of it! A great story!
The Impala video is very good. Thank you for putting these wonderful videos and information online! I have hopes the wild dogs will be healthy and go on to have more pups! Thanks to you for giving their story of the battle against rabies, I pray you and the healthy dogs are the winners in that battle!
Thanks, Kim, You are doing a wonderful work!
Regards,
Sue
It’s your heroism, Kim, that made you huge.
When you think about it, there are really only two versions of that story they could tell people. They could either tell the story of a giant of a man that spat curses at them and whisked away their precious trophy on his shoulders, or they could tell the story of how low and small they felt before your righteous indignation.
I wish you could have been in Savuti to do the same for the most beautiful lion I’ve ever seen, Ntchwaidumela. I know it’s passe to love lions anymore, I just don’t care. Ntchwaidumela deserved uncommon valor to keep him from becoming an armed man’s trophy too.
I’m proud of you.
Kimberley
Douw: keeping the meals on wheels for when the lions are desperate. Yes the reasons for interfering wtih the dogs is they are highly endangered AND the origin of the virus is not natural.