Animals like this Waterbuck, who was grazing maybe 100 feet away. But, also animals like baby elephants.
We were one of the first to arrive on the scene of a very fresh kill. Our driver guides pulled us up near her.
She was maybe fifteen feet away from our truck, but seemed unconcerned about our presence.
Even baby elephants have very tough hides. It takes her a while to chew her way through it.
Our guides say that, for the most part, the animals see our trucks as one large object. They do not differentiate individual people sitting in the truck from the truck itself.
She stopped for a moment and gave them a low growl. When she was sure they weren't coming after her kill, she resumed her meal. By this time, probably twenty trucks had showed up.
We had taken plenty of pictures, so our guide said that it was time to leave and give others a chance to see her. That was fine. We left, and saw this Yellow-Billed Stork, among lots of other things.
When we came back an hour or so later, a younger lion was feeding on the carcass, which was pretty well chewed up by then.
We looked past the carcass into the bushes and saw the mother, her belly quite full, resting in the shade while the cub finished eating.
The rest of the shots I took here get quite graphic, so I've left them out. Suffice it to say that it was a really good day for these lions, but a terrible day for the baby elephant. Such are the ways of nature.
Next time, we see leopards in trees.
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