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 –

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Mother and child zebra

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Oxpeckers

Zebra through the trees

Vultures – cape buffalo

Warthog family

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

Zebra

Sunrise

Atop termite mound

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Mother and child

Lion enjoys zebra

Young hyenas

Lion

Leopard

Lizard

Leopard

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Leopard licks lips

Yawn

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

Leopard

Hooded Vulture

MalaMala Game Reserve

Leopard full yawn

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Leopard

Tourist

Hippopotamus

Baboon – backyard

Wild dog kiss

Oxpeckers

Leopard mid-yawn

Lilac-breasted roller

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Giraffe tongue

Sunset

Nile crocodile

Donald Trump warthog

Vultures in tree

Giraffe pose

Leopard lick

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Lion

Mongoose family

Elephant mud bath

Blue Wildebeast

Elephant dust bath

Thorns

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

African wild dogs

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Kingfisher