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 –

Donald Trump warthog

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Hippopotamus

Hooded Vulture

Giraffe pose

Zebra through the trees

Elephant dust bath

Mother and child zebra

Wild dog kiss

Kingfisher

Mother and child

Thorns

Leopard full yawn

Nile crocodile

Leopard licks lips

Lilac-breasted roller

Leopard

Leopard

Leopard

Young hyenas

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Leopard

Vultures – cape buffalo

Tourist

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

MalaMala Game Reserve

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

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Mongoose family

Oxpeckers

Sunset

Zebra

African wild dogs

Baboon – backyard

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Elephant mud bath

Leopard mid-yawn

Leopard lick

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Warthog family

Sunrise

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Atop termite mound

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Yawn

Lion

Blue Wildebeast

Oxpeckers

Lizard

Giraffe tongue

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Lion enjoys zebra

Vultures in tree

Lion