African wildlife adventures live from the bush
Penny’s birthday today and I just couldn’t face not being with her. I drove through the night to arrive at dawn to surprise Penny. She’s a happy bunny to have her daddy. Happy dad too now needs to recover!
These buffalo just kept coming and coming out the woodland. It was a huge herd. Really spectacular.
At last the pups gave me a peek into their lives although it didn’t last very long.
The alpha female arrived obviously after a successful hunt around 8h30 this morning.
On arriving at the den she whined a little ways off but really quietly. I think she was a little apprehensive with that thing in the hide.
Then she got bold and walked to the den and called them out. Unfortunately she remained behind some bush, which I had left there to give her some cover.
She suckled the pups standing up and then shortly another dog regurgitated meat for them. (Not sure if it was the male or the other female. Actually we don’t even know if there are 3 adults in the pack.) That was when I got lucky and the pups came into my clearing to eat the chunks. They are just so cute these little guys. They lost their ugly look they have at about 3 weeks and are now looking more like dogs. But stocky little dogs. Nothing lean like their parents. That will only come at about 4 to 5 months.
For now they’re just cute little puppies.
Having filmed them for about 4 minutes my tape ran out and just the click of me changing tapes alerted the adults. With one bark the pups underground!
(I wasn’t able to get any photos today. This photo was taken a couple of years ago and those pups are much the same age as these little guys are now.)
Several hours later the Alpha came back to the den but then saw me through a little gap in the hide. She barked several times and didn’t come back. But at least they really do seem to be getting used to me at last. Still got a long long way to go.
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