Animals in the Savannah

On our first safari, the whole group got five meters away from a lion in an open safari car. It had a zebra carcass that it caught two days ago and you could see the animal’s ribs torn out and the smell was horrific and flies were everywhere.

 There were lots of giraffes and zebras because they stick together so they can warn each other if any predators are around.

 Every place you see giraffes and zebras you normally see impalas and bushbucks. They are like deers except that the bushbucks are bigger than the impalas.

 We also saw two white rhinos, a mother and a baby. There are two types of rhinos, the black rhino and the white rhino like we just saw. The black rhino loses its temper easily. We were very lucky that it was a white rhino, although we did have to stop so it wouldn’t charge at us.

 We had a tracker that helped us find a cheetah but we had to leave the car. We knew the cheetahs wouldn’t try to eat us because they enjoy us.

Today we saw an elephant. Although there was only one out of the twenty it was still pretty exciting.

When we were looking at a lake, we saw ripples and then a couple of seconds later a hippo appeared but we only got to see its head.

Our ranger told us that the birds are always noisy when danger is around so we follow the bird calls. There is a bird called the rainbird and that bird is very noisy when it’s going to rain and it did but only lightly. It was Lucky for us because we were in an open car again.

The ranger showed us some dung beetles that were rolling around a ball of poo. The poo came from an elephant. They lay eggs in that ball of poo so that when the eggs hatch, the baby dung beetles have something to eat.

 Bye for now Jack.

  

       

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