Wild nature
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Hey, get up
On our drive to our lodge in Serengeti park those guys were hanging out right at the side of the road. It was like they wanted to make some tired tourists very happy.
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Lions can climb trees
So apparently trees are not a safe place to hide from lions.
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Getting really packed up there
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Tree full of lions
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What are you looking at?
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Giraffe under an umbrella tree
Can it get any more african? I think not. The whole time I was expecting the title song of 'The Lion King' to start: 'Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba ...'
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Giraffe fighting
Two giraffe fighting by bashing their necks together
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More giraffe
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Vast graslands of Serengeti
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Landscape to fall in love with
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Bird
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Bird
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Another car in front of us
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Bird sitting on a signpost
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Buschbuck
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Two leppards
who can spot the two leppards in this picture?
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Can you see them now?
This picture is grainy and lacks detail, because it has been heavily magnified and exposure has been turned up. But at least we can see them now. (And one has to keep in mind that they were ca. 50m away from the road.)
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Picture hunting
And that is how it looks like when a leppard has been spotted
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Hippos smell
There were quite a number of hippos in that small pond. And the smell of hippos is not a nice one.
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Another leppard
and then our dreams came true and we stumbled across another leppard in a tree that was much closer to the road.
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Whould you have spotted the leppard?
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This cat seems really relaxed
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Lions in a tree
Fun fact: If a lions lies like that it is probably a male. Female lions find it more comfortable to lie with one leg to the left and one to the right of the branch.
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Spot the two lions
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Lion in a tree
You can see clearly that this lion wears a fashionable collar with a transponder. Doesn't seem to bother it much.
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Lions are bad climber
Lions can go up and down trees, but is more like walking and not climbing. The leppards e.g. were a lot more skilfull in that respect.
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Bird
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Getting really comfortable on that road
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Giraffe
Somehow the close-ups of those animals always make me smile.
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Simba
I was waiting for the Lion King or Simba the White Lion to appear.
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Dungbeetle
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Ugly stork
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Even less impressive bird
This is another impressive demonstration that birds should always be shown from the side. Birds lokk stupid when shown from the front. Always.
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Leftovers
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I can still see you
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Migration
That moment was absolutely amazing. Gnus and zebras were moving all around us.
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Migration
Animals up to the horizon.
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