Thursday, April 9, 2009

GAME DRIVE...haha hyenas



Okay so we met at the lodge and began our game drive....first stop...HYENAS. They may look cute but um no they aren't. So this safari only has two animals penned up, the hyenas three of them (although there are wild hyenas around, who stalk these ones at night around their fence, and another one that lives with John and Judy which they raised), and the female lion (now also a male lion who i never met, oh and suposadly a wild lion who we never saw but saw prints who made me nervous!). These two animals are in pens (which are spacious) because if not then the visitors would not be safe, we could not walk and do game count, and the other game would be harder to manage as these guys would be eating them, and the handlers of the elephants and the rhinos would not be safe. So our first stop was these guys. I do like their ears! They have a weird body type with short back legs and their body is on an angle. but their jaws could pretty much crush your bones with one bite down.....so they are welcome to stay on that side of the fence and me on the other. Oh while i was there one of them was pregnant and so the black guys who work there (because these hyenas are only nice to black males, i know it seems racist to all you americans but its the way of nature for some reason) would go in and look around so that they could take them out of there safely before they hurt them. But i think they killed them after she had them because she magically wasn't pregnant and the babies were no where to be found. Yes jason "Nature is harsh!" Oh one last thing..hyenas cries/laughs makes me VERRRRRRY nervous, it is kinda scary....NOT funny!

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