Many African animals are simply huge: elephants, lions, rhinos, hippos, and scores of others …. but it is hard to get across their sheer size on the blog, because there only rarely are points of reference. I can talk about a rhino weighing well over a ton, as much as a car, or an elephant weighing twice the amount of a large pickup truck, or a giraffe measuring over 4m in height, it really is just numbers.
But sometimes, I get a photo that really runs home the point!
See below. 🙂
I think this explains why many guests say “giraffes” when asked which animals they were most impressed by. This is the tallest mammal walking the earth … and it is massive, by any stretch of the imagination. It is like being in a Jurassic Park film, except that this is the real deal.
And how about a 2-ton rhino? What does it look like when you sit on our game driver, and one of these massive biests gets up-close?
With those impressions, I will leave you for now … much more to follow soon, as always!
