Our guests are currently decidedly spoilt. Quasi every day offers an outstanding sighting, or two, or three, and often even more. And the thing on this reserve is that you get to spend “quality time” with the animals, unlike on most other reserves where you just end up being chased around, and you get very short amounts of times at a sighting. It’s about quality here, not quantity. It’s not a zoo over here, this is the real deal.
Speaking of which …. we saw the lions again yesterday, on a fresh kill. An amazing sighting, and our guests absulutely loved it. It was a lucky moment, and it was very interesting to observe the social structure of a lion pride while dividing the “loot”. But somehow our male lion has a softer spot, and he lets the little ones have as much as they want, and he is very involved with rearing the little ones. That said, he hunts unusually much, and he’s very good at it (which is unusual for male lions).
As we continued, we ran into yet another unusual sighting. Not that it is an unusual thing for a rhino to do, but to witness it, that up-close, that is rare. It’s a privilege.
Rhinos take mud baths to cool down, and get rid of ticks and other parasites. By letting the mud dry on them, and then scratch it off (with the ticks glued in the mud), it is an effective means of getting rid of the annoying little critters.
I have never seen this myself, so yes, I’d say lucky guests indeed.
