Scrappin' sloppin' hogs.
Anton had never even seen a white frog before. I offered that perhaps it had been struck by lightning.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Food Chain
Mystery Death
This was a dead velvet monkey that I alone witnessed.
It was so freshly dead that only the ants had found him yet.
We suspected that a black mamba snake may have killed him.
Animals
This playful little scamp would take your face off.
The baboons weren't as scared of us as most of the other animals were. They would run, yes, but not before checking us out.
The hippo would make incredible honking and barking sounds at night when they woke up.
This is an elephant that charged us. Tollo cocked his gun and I thought he was going to shoot it, but we drove away first.
The Warthog
This warthog was killed on the third shot.
My father: a beautiful man.
One of the bullets actually hit it's tail.
Lema, Tollo, Anton, and Alan. Amazing, funny, talented men.
I will make music with it's hooves.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Hunting
Tollo said this was a 'game post'. It was in the exact middle of nowhere.
Sometimes we would crawl on our hands and knees to get up close to the buffalo.
Game trails.
Strategy
This is some old lion bait that Alan cut down. It was a dried up husk of an elephant leg, but was probably once very appetizing.
Lion are hard to hunt; they're very nervy. This safari would have been boring if we had had to just sit and wait under a bush all night waiting for a lion to show up. Instead, we followed buffalo around on foot for hours and hours at a time, through thick forest and blasting humidity.
Camp on the Luego
This is everyone who was at the camp. They were all awesome and friendly.
We stayed right on the edge of the Luego River.
This rather sturdy building has to be strong enough to keep hyenas and other scavengers out. It's full of delicious dead animals!
Lema cutting up some jerky strips. The word for 'meat' in Swahili is 'nyama'.
Mbogo skull roasting away.
All the animals killed so far this season.
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