I’m just about to head off on my 11hour journey back to Zimbabwe and back to the bush! Yes I’ll be home soon listening to lions roaring and hyaenas whooping as I drift off to sleep tonight.
This elephant bull at Bandama pan was being a typical cocky and selfish young boy. He wasn’t keen on sharing his waterhole with anybody, especially as it seemed they had the best water. Wildebeest, zebra and impala weren’t spared as he sent them packing. They obviously aware of his antics, just went to drink on the other side of the pan. No doubt frustrating the dude even more.
When the water level at Banyini pan gets low the clover type plant that grows abundantly on the water surface, now becomes accessible to the baboon troop.
In the dry parched landscape, Banyini is a little oasis and with the water level down the baboon are then able to get to the island in the middle of the pan that is a solid cover of this clover plant.
Although it doesn’t provide much nutrition to the baboons, it does help fill those empty tummies and like any fresh salad has to be refreshing when feeding out in the dry lands all day.
The babies hanging on to their mom’s tummies aren’t too sure about this change of scenery where they end up hanging over water. It’s a whole new world for them and they reach down keen to test it out, but never letting go of mom.
The slightly bigger braver babies use mom to move them around the island, jumping off onto more stable land masses to feed and the back onto mom to the next ‘dry’ land.
The troop spend about an hour here before moving on.
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