Safari

I’m waist deep in footage from the South African photo safari we went on last week at MalaMala Game Reserve next to Kruger National Park. Here are a few videos and some of my favorite photos so far –

Elephant and rhinoceros mud bath (safe for all stomachs) –

Lions vs. vultures (warning: a little bit of raw meat) –

Overstuffed lions try to protect the leftovers of a Cape buffalo meal from hungry and persistent vultures.

Zebra feast (warning: medium graphic but super interesting. Noisy eaters!) –

Another Land Rover pulled up behind us and a woman said, “Wait, what are they doing?! Are they eating a zebra?! I do NOT want to see that. I thought they were just hanging out!”

Photos –

Zebra

Zebra through the trees

Baboon – backyard

Leopard lick

Hooded Vulture

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Mother and child

Lion

Nile crocodile

Lion enjoys zebra

Young hyenas

Leopard

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Sunset

Lizard

Wild dog kiss

Giraffe pose

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Oxpeckers

Elephant dust bath

Yawn

Donald Trump warthog

Giraffe tongue

Leopard

Vultures – cape buffalo

Vultures in tree

Leopard licks lips

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

African wild dogs

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Mongoose family

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Leopard

Warthog family

Leopard full yawn

Sunrise

Devil’s horns – got many of these stuck in my shoe

Leopard

Mother and child zebra

Atop termite mound

Hippopotamus

MalaMala Game Reserve

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Blue Wildebeast

Thorns

Oxpeckers

Leopard mid-yawn

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Elephant mud bath

Lilac-breasted roller

Kingfisher

Lion

Tourist