False Impala rut: Video

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Wildcaster
on December 17, 2007
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It’s back to a new look Malilangwe.

Tall sky
With all the rain over the last 10 days or so I arrived back to a much greener Malilangwe. The grasses are already a foot taller and the bush somewhat thicker. This is going to make conditions that much harder to work in, although that wasn’t really on my mind as I was just happy to be back.

New family
Venturing out this afternoon I was hoping to pick up on the elephants in the hills but there was no sign of them there.
There were a whole bunch of lion tracks near Ganyani but they were several days old. (We did see Manyari and 6 youngsters on the Binya road when driving in last night. They were a lot further north than I’d seen them before.)
With storm clouds surrounding me I moved out into the open on Banyini. The landscape here was a brilliant green with pockets of game scattered all over.
Impala rams were displaying and rubbing their foreheads on bushes, and then roaring and chasing each other around. This is typical rutting behaviour but very much out of season. Whatever it was it kept them entertained.

Those boys
The wildebeest with their calves were running like the clowns of the bushveld that they are.

Run
Zebra, wildebeest and impala were mixing freely across the plains. And luckily for all there was no sign of any predators.

Green mix
I ducked off home with dark skies booming down on me, but it didn’t happen as the rain past by to the north.
Tall sky

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