Not the Goose-step: Video
Published by Wildcaster 2 months, 1 week ago Tags: adventure, africa, african, african birds, animal, animal kingdom, animals, bird, birding, birding african birds, blogumentary, buffalo, clouds scenic, conservation, documentary, eagles, ecotraining, education, egyptian geese, flickr, giraffe, GLTP, gonarezhou, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, hyaenas, malilangwe, mashable, narrowcasting, Open Content Alliance, ornithology, pamushana, peace parks, photo, photos, podcasting, teach, video, vultures, waterhole, wildcast, wildcasting, wilderness, wildlife, wildlife documentary, youtube, zimbabwe.I wouldn’t say it was back to an exciting start.
2 carcasses in a couple of kilometres of each other.
The buffalo cow looked like she’d died of old age. He teeth were really badly worn and she was extremely thing. The carcass was already a couple of days old and the vultures had moved on. They had found new pickings.
The giraffe cow seemed to be in the prime of her life and died of natural causes. And the vultures were really tucking in to this one.
Both carcasses had hardly been touched by other predators. There had been some chewing on bones but probably only by jackal.
We had both carcasses tested for anthrax and thankfully both were negative.
On my way out this morning, 4 of my friends came strolling down the road all bloodied and well fed. So no guessing what they’d been up to. The hyaenas carried on up into the hills. The one female is full of milk and obviously nursing. If only I could find their den. No doubt when I’m airborne in the next few days I hope to pick up on these sorts of things.
It was another day at the hangar and all nearly done!
Only at sunset did I get out to Bandama pan with little going on except for the Egyptian geese, Blacksmith plover and Booted Eagle all trying to get along.
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You raise an interesting question: what makes a goose a goose, and what makes a duck a duck? Why is the Egyptian goose really a duck?
Eve
Hola Kim,
Anthrax. How big of a problem is it in Malilangwe? Who does the testing, and how soon are they able to report back? I know it is a big problem at Etosha pan, read of an adult ele exposed while eating grass, and died that afternoon. The spores can remain viable for easily a hundred years.
Just how light is your microlite? And you had to go to SA for a license? A few years ago some fellows around here thought they could use one to scout out coyotes using one, then phoning their direction of travel to someone else on the ground with a gun. They managed to kill two coyotes. That was the first and last time it worked. Gotta admire those cool coyotes, you get one and only one chance with something like this, “dumb” animals they most certainly are not!
b.
A goose is a goose and a duck is a duck! Surely that needs no more explaining?! Cos if it does, I don’t know.
Malilangwe had it’s first ever anthrax outbreak about 4 years ago which was extremely efficiently contained.
We have a resident vet on the property now. Dr.Bruce Fivaz. He was able to do a test immediately and both turned up negative.
Microlight is LIGHT. Not much more than a few aluminium pipes and motor and a wing. Photos to come soon. Yes I have a license to fly it.
Was just curious as to why SA was where you had to go to get license. Can hardly wait to see the pics you come up with! At least we won’t have to worry about your appendix….