Barbi

Do you see the birds on this Cape Buffalo? They are red billed oxpeckers. Oxpeckers got their name because they are often found perching on large mammals and eating the insects off of them. Their insects of choice are ticks, flies, worms, and lice. Their methods are so effective that an adult oxpecker can eat 100 blood-engorged ticks or more than 12,000 larvae every day!

Elephants take dust baths and mud baths to cool down their bodies. To cool down, even more, elephants will spray mud or water behind their ears. This allows the circulating blood to cool down faster as an elephant can pump all its blood through its ears every 20 minutes.

Every evening after a wonderful day in the bush, all the guests at Mashatu Tented Camp would enjoy a delicious dinner in the boma. The boma is a gathering place where guests meet for dinner in an open air atmosphere. Notice I have my binoculars ready. They came in handy when a hyena started approaching us one of the evenings.

I tried for many days to take a picture of a Zebra looking right at me. This is difficult because Zebra tend to quickly turn away from you and there are always!! multiple Zebra standing close together. Patience and persistence.