The baboons kept me occupied for most of the day. I so want to do a baboon film but just can’t find the right story. Working with these guys is just amazing once you’ve got them habituated and can walk with them. Maybe one day when I’m big I’ll come up with something.
With that distraction I didn’t get away to the elephants but saw these 2 bulls sauntering down to the dam and rushed over there, hoping they would swim. But with temperatures having dropped 10 degrees from yesterday they just weren’t interested and moved off after drinking.
The waterbuck were grazing on this peninsula in the Malilangwe dam. As I drove towards them they panicked when the realised they’d been cornered on this spit of land and took off past me.
Once safely out the way it was time to investigate this thing! Me of course.
Later in the afternoon a herd of sable had just drunk at Banyini but were skittish to find themselves in the open when I approached and took off. The windy weather of today doesn’t help either making the animals generally skittish.
The giraffe though didn’t seem too perturbed.
It was only late in the afternoon that we found the Nduna pride resting up just south of the hills. They were their normal selves, dirty and smelly and covered in flies.
With little life there (nothing unusual) we moved on down to the Chiredzi River. Here were 2 lionesses lying in the sand. As it got dark they moved out the river and seemed to be hunting but soon snookered us by heading back west across the river and out of bounds.
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