2003 onwards: only films by then, the Nikon D1 or D100 just came out, cost an arm and a leg…so I usually carried 2 cameras, sometimes more, usually one loaded in B/W, one in color. Though depending on the available light or the weather, I might have gone for both cameras loaded the same. No need to change lenses in this case.
the rains have disappeared, the ponds and the river get dryer, hippos start to pack closer to each other and their own feces mix nicely with the mud. Splendid!
probably a male, usually irate and grumpy.
I’ve never caught the action properly on picture but hippos are very territorial animals. Like dogs stupidly pissing everywhere, hippos drop a few things too. But it is their own feces that they propel against a wall or a tree. The real funny part of this is that they fan their little tail while shitting, spraying turds all over. The rapid “flapflapflap” noise is hilarious. Some bits fall in the water. “When the shit hit the fan” people say…
fighting is common scenery, between males of course. These hippos pictures above were shot in Katavi
young giraffes. Notice the proportions are not quite right yet and the hair on the neck is fluffier than on later age.
leaving Katavi for the Selous, below:
silhouette in the morning mist.
those white trees are dead, they were submerged by some floods years ago. The Rufiji river has now gone back to normal level.
I’d say giraffes blend in quite well. Though camouflage is a bit useless to giraffes since few predators are after them. Lions when desperate might try their luck, and human poachers. The giraffe is the national emblem for Tanzania but that doesn’t deter poachers of course. It just means the fine, or more likely the bribe, is higher when caught…
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