Safari: Tanzania - Tarangire Part 1, Saturday 2022 November 12


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November 12th 2022
Published: December 5th 2023
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The sun rose directly into my window. For a few minutes, I watched it while lying in bed – a first! I jumped up, grabbed my camera, and sat on the patio for the rest of the display. My reward was in the form of a dik-dik strolling unconcernedly across the grass, about twenty feet from where I sat mesmerized. Our destinations in Tarangire Park were a water course of the Tarangire River and a dis... Read Full Entry



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CongregatingCongregating
Congregating

No preditors
Disturbed zebras Disturbed zebras
Disturbed zebras

Skittish by design
Ostriches Ostriches
Ostriches

Having a look
Steenbok Steenbok
Steenbok

Very good at not moving, until it has to
Steenbok - tiny antelopeSteenbok - tiny antelope
Steenbok - tiny antelope

Typically 12 kilograms in weight



5th December 2023

What a spectacular day, documented in some spectacular shots/video, especially of the "chase". As a creature at the top pf my own food chain, it's perhaps illogical for my sympathies to lie with the prey rather than the predator, but so it is. And that Lilac-breasted roller is stunning.
8th December 2023

The Chase
I too wanted the prey to escape, although afternwards I felt sorry for the hungry leopard.

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