Ruaha, the vast garden around my 2nd residence… a tiny selection of wildlife I saw in one day.
An aptly named lilac-breasted roller. Those birds are as fast to take off as Usain Bolt.
A fish eagle got a meal.
A cape eland, the biggest antelope in Africa. Up to 800 kg and still they can jump as far as 8m! Imagine a cow…
A proof that people are not always good witnesses. We were changing a flat tyre when this lioness ran past us. Not more than 4m away according to a passenger! I said 25m…who’s right…?
Stealthy crocodile in the Ruaha river.
A cool job or what? There were about 500 buffalos in the river alone but they kept on coming along from the west. This team used a drone and told us later that they counted 998 buffalos, 2% error!
An ox pecker sits on the buffalo’s head.
A fish eagle on take off. It is very similar to the American bald eagle, their national emblem. At least here in Africa the various psycho hunters haven’t managed to exterminate nearly all of them.
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