Olive baboon - troops
Papa
Link to Youtube of teenage baboons playing top of the mountain. Hilarious.
Cape buffalo herds
Common bushbuck - antelope
Gray duiker - antelope small, elusive. Just saw it far away, moving fast
Eland - antelope
African savannah elephant
Giraffe
making his way to get some salt and minerals from the ground
The largest stride of giraffes we saw.
Hippopotamus
Hippo out of the water
Impala - antelope
Two handsome Impala
Black backed jackel - too far away to photograph for us.
Lion coalition of males
Female lion going back to the kill to eat.
Lion pride
Lions eating
Mongoose, grey, yellow and banded
No photo, but they were all over the Chobe Bakwana lodge grounds
Puku - antelope
white rhino
rhino
Sable - antelope elusive, solitary
S. African ground squirrel everywhere but not photogenic
Steenbok - antelope
Termite mound, Chobe
Warthog a group is a sounder
Warthogs grazing at our hotel by the crocodile river.
Waterbuck - antelope
Water buck
Wildebeest or gnu - antelope
Gnu
Zebra a group is a dazzle
Crocodile
Leopard turtle
leopard turtle
Water Buck
Secretary bird
Ostrich
Monitor lizard, very hard to spot or photograph
The one we didn't see, which means we will have to return, is the elusive leopard. We did see the antelope he killed, we just don't know which one it was, among the group that was attacked, just after we left the scene.
Africa: I will never forget it. I am so glad a had the opportunity to visit and go on safari. I was totally blown away. It was not the experience I imagined, which was, I thought, like going to Denali Park and seeing the wild animals of Alaska. Surely Africa is similar, just different animals. But this is a whole different experience.
I loved watching elephants. I would have been happy to just see elephants going about their daily lives.
Hippos were interesting, peeking their heads up out of the water, and then wandering to banks of the river to eat grass in the evening, seemingly impossible to walk. The happy hippo on his back was priceless.
Rhinos swishing their heads from side to side, wandering in a zig zag path, looking too heavy to move.
Giraffes are so graceful and compelling. silently looking at us chewing their cud.
Crocodiles basking in the sun and quickly slipping into the water for a bath.
Wart hogs always gave us a laugh because of their funny gate and how they were usually in a family, babies tailing behind.
Lions, confident, walking like princes with an attitude of superiority.
Baboons jumping from tree to tree, all over the road, always in big family groups. Plenty of food of fruit on the trees so they could play.
Monkeys having a good time performing.
Cape buffalo looking forlorn, swishing their tails, too heavy to walk much. They seemed uncomfortable. I never saw them eat anything.
The birds were a surprise to me. I am fascinated with them. Their colors. Their habits, songs, flight. The water birds pranced and spread their wings. They were very busy.
Zebra, heads down, snipping short green grass, teasing each other. When we came upon a group they would invariably turn their backs on us to give us the rear end photos you can use at the end of your slide show.
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