"O, hai guyz! I herd you was hazzing a piknik!"
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Piknik hazzing wildlife of the Serengeti.
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Tawny eagle, I think. Have to check the bird book when I get home.
[Edit: yes, it appears to be a Tawny Eagle, woot!] |
Dario, Sean, and Andy risk their lives in a big ol' field of giraffes. Seriously, they were legion!
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(Not our vehicle.)
View of the crater from a different part of the rim from a few days ago. Wow. Just amazing! |
I don't know if this is true or not, but it seems to have its own climate inside. Clouds that descend or form below the edge of the crater, rain squalls... Just so awesome.
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Road down into the crater. Doesn't look too bad in this picture, but it was *narrow* and STEEP and sUpeR bUmPy!
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Tree along the rim, thick with weaver bird nests!
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Tanzanian lawn ornaments. Not sure how flamingos got so popular.
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Way cooler than a gnome, for sure.
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And they come in different poses!
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These don't really work for a small yard. You need some acreage if you want to use zebra ornaments.
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Will have to look this up in the bird book, too. Still, much more decorative than simple pink, dontcha think?
[Edit: It's a Grey Crowned Crane, ooo!] |
Female ostrich. (Not to be confused with the "ossifrage" of King James' Deuteronomy fame. ;)
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Male ostrich.
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Another hartebeeste. :)
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Oo, look! It walks like a camel instead of a horse. Neat!
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We were able to get ever so slightly closer to the pink horizontal line of flamingos this time. Closer than at Lake Manyara, that is. But they were still soooo far away we had to take Fabian's word that these were, in fact, the inspiration for lawn decor throughout North America.
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There are only 14 black rhinos in all of Ngorongoro -- and this is one of them! (We later notcied that there were 2 of them there, actually.) It was nearly as far away as the flamingos, however. Not to worry. We found another one later. ...Stay tuned!
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Proud mama warthog.
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Talking to the bebes.
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"No! Flee the photographers! FLEE!"
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Yay! More hippos!
I just found them so fascinating to watch. Really, though, it's amazing that folks are allowed to get so close. They are pretty darned aggressive towards humans. According to my very scientific studies of Wikipedia "...it is claimed that they kill more people than any other animal except mosquitos." ...Daaaang. |
They come out at night and graze, once the sun has stopped beating down on their delicate hippo-dermises.
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If you were thinking of using them as stepping stones to keep from getting your feet wet while crossing to the other side, don't. They are far too toothy and bitey for such an endeavor. Gnashy, gnashy teeth!
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Cattle egrets, aka hippo egrets, with blacksmith plovers in the foreground.
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Doth mine eyes deceive me or be that a pelly-can?!?
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Purty lil' egrets. :)
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Gray heron.
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