Wild dog lovin'
We saw wild dogs during one of our field days!:)
It was great until all the game viewer vehicles with tourists arrived - the guides had absolutely no respect for the dogs, instead of stopping at one spot and allowing the dogs to move naturally to wherever they were missioning too, they followed them up and down as close as possible to allow the tourists to see as much as possible. And one of the adult males was limping which isn't good, hopefully the injury isn't too bad.
Then on our way out yesterday, a herd was on either side of the road, with an adult female browsing on one of the trees next to the road - instead of driving by slowly, an idiot driver decides to park right next to the cow and rev the car! WTF. No common sense has followed me from Botswana. This continued for about 10 minutes, during which a traffic jam was created because of this idiot. During his revving stunt, he chased away a few younger elephants close to the road, preventing us from taking any ID photos of the herd. Thanks dude. He even had the nerve of driving right up to the cow when she didn't react at all (thankfully). Hope he got a double puncture on the way home. Luckily a driver who clearly has more common sense drove past the cow, showing the idiot the ethical manner of getting past an elephant.
I really hope for his sake that he doesn't try that with a bull in musth, because the turn-out will definitely be very different.
Other than that incident, things have been pretty quiet this side, melted a few times in the field, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees. But I had the most surreal experience with an elephant bull coming right up to me while I was recording rumbles on the back of the bakkie. He was within arms reach and so inquisitive, breathing in every scent to understand the situation. I could hear him sucking in the air around me! It felt like he was looking right at me. It still feels like a dream.
I'll post the video soon **
#wildatheart
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