Saturday 26 September 2009

Okonjima, Namibia: 21st September 2009


This morning we were back to clearing up poo and bones in the Cheetah enclosures. We stopped at 10.30 to join the feeding run, which involved driving behind a truck and watching as the staff lobbed huge chunks of fresh donkey over the fence to the animals. The cheetahs would grab their meat and run off back into their reserve, dragging it along beside them, whereas the leopards were very impressive and actually jumped up to catch the meat mid air, smart arses!

In the afternoon we went leopard tracking – the aim this time was to see TJ, the big leopard who killed 6 cheetahs last year (naughty kitty!). We managed to find another leopard called poo face (not really but I can’t remember his name) and then managed to find TJ just before dark – he’d just killed a wart hog, which wasn’t a particularly pleasant sight with his guts hanging out – hey ho, the wonders of nature!





















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