Yesterday morning's game drive was full of the "typical" animals- Giraffe, Zebra, Impala, nothing special. It's amazing how quickly you acclimate, and these amazing animals become typical- oh yea, another zebra, yawn :)
This morning we went in search of Renee, their collared Hyena. They monitor her movements and are trying to see how much she hunts vs. scavenges, but given that you can only monitor her with this telemetry contraption, and all it does is give off a beeping sound, in order to track her movements, you actually have to hunt around for her, then wait around to see what she does. They said they did that for 12 hours one night. How fun?! Today they heard her run off in the bush, but were not able to actually see her. They're going back out again tonight, and again tomorrow morning at 4am (notice the use of the word THEY, as to not include me!). We were able to see some Elephants though, which I haven't seen in a few days, and that's always exciting. On the way there/back we saw the ever present Zebra, Giraffe, and Impala, along with the Warthogs (they're so ugly they're cute! one of my favorites here!), a Bush buck, some Kudu (both related to the antelope), along with Wildebeest and tons of birds. Africa has tons of birds, and the new family that came on Mon is very into them, wanting to stop for everyone, so it gets a little tedious for those of us who are not necessarily interested in them!
Speaking of the new family- I've come up with a theory. I believe that Africa gives free tickets to Germans to come and visit. Either that, or Germany is passively trying to take over the world again, and this time they are doing it by sending their people to conquer other countries through travel, and they're starting with Africa. Otherwise, I cannot figure out the over-representation of Germans here (given the size of their country compared to the rest of the world). There are about as many Germans here as there are Impala (remember, Kruger has 100,000!).
Sala Kahle,
Robyn
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