Today we left Kruger. While in the park, we feasted our eyes, ears, and noses on the park. We saw lots of animals, we heard the bird calls, screaming cicadas, groaning hippos, and roaring lions, and we smelled the flowers (the park was in full bloom from the recent rains) and dead hippo. The primary point, though, was the animal life. We saw more of any animal than in any of the other parks, excepting gemsbok and springbok, which we didn\u2019t see, and giraffes (in Etosha we saw 91; we saw only 75 in Kruger).<\/p>\n
Here is my total:<\/p>\n
2,781 black-faced impala
\n564 African elephants
\n483 blue wildbeeste
\n419 zebra
\n94 Cape buffalo
\n75 giraffes
\n67 Nile crocodiles
\n59 hippos
\n48 waterbuck
\n27 lions
\n13 white rhinos
\n11 bushbuck
\n10 spotted hyenas
\n8 African wild dogs
\n8 nyala
\n7 scrub hares
\n6 cheetahs
\n2 small-spotted genets
\n2 honey badgers
\n2 leopards
\n1 large-spotted genet
\n1 Sharpe\u2019s grysbok
\n1 black-backed jackal<\/p>\n
Beyond these, we also saw baboons, vervet monkeys, leopard tortoises, banded mongoose, a duiker, three steenbok, ground agamas, and, apart from the many types of birds including the Southern ground hornbill, Marabou stork, pied kingfisher, Egyptian goose, helmeted guineafowl, and Verreaux eagle-owl, my very favorite animal sighting: a puff adder.<\/p>\n
Ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we left Kruger. While in the park, we feasted our eyes, ears, and noses on the park. We saw lots of animals, we heard the bird calls, screaming cicadas, groaning hippos, and roaring lions, and we smelled the flowers … Continue reading