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 –

Wild dog kiss

Leopard licks lips

Baboon – backyard

Rhino covered in oxpeckers

Kingfisher

Cape buffalo with hazy eye

Lion

Giraffe pose

Yawn

Giraffe tongue

Sunset

Hornbill (Zazu from Lion King)

Nile crocodile

Mother and child

Hooded Vulture

Blue Wildebeast

Zebra through the trees

Young hyenas

Baby elephant – tail removed by hyena

Leopard lick

Lilac-breasted roller

Vultures in tree

Oxpeckers

Leopard

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

Sunrise

Kudu and Nyala in our backyard

Donald Trump warthog

Leopard

Lion enjoys zebra

Sand river through MalaMala Game Reserve

Hippopotamus

Leopard

Lion getting shade from Land Rover

MalaMala Game Reserve

Atop termite mound

Giraffe chews jawbone for minerals

Leopard

Oxpeckers on rhinoceros leg

Zebra

Tourist

Lion

Leopard mid-yawn

Elephant mud bath

Vultures – cape buffalo

Elephant dust bath

Mother and child zebra

Thorns

Warthog family

Mongoose family

Lizard

Vervet monkey has an epiphany

Oxpeckers

African wild dogs

Leopard full yawn