Six men could hardly carry this lion to the truck.
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
One of the smaller lions…
Shiloh, daughter/niece of our hosts, in training for her own wildlife captures……
Day 2: Off we go at 6:30AM to find and capture three female wildebeest that are to be donated to a high school that has its own game farm where they use the resources to train young people for wildlife management skills.
Wonderfully curious animals….. two approached us to within 100 feet while we were on the ground loading some horses into the truck. Just beautiful, just a simple friendly curious look on their faces. We just cannot imagine that their awareness and feelings, or that of the wildebeest, lions, etc., are as shallow as so many people (especially the hunters) would have us believe .
Getting ready…. Two dart guns, two wildebeest…… that’s Guy giving them continuous range readings…. The dart guns have limited range and even less accuracy. Depends entirely on the skill of the marksman making the right range calculations in the wind, for the range, and for the animal.
What they are aiming at…… a small herd of wildebeest……
The intrepid tracker-capturers about to set out on their mission.
Our trusty vehicle for the wildebeest captures…. well, until its fuel line broke and left a trail of fuel for about a mile and left us stranded away out there in the yonder. Thank goodness for cell phone reception even out here…… they sent a rescue vehicle to rescue us and with which we captured another wildebeest.
Day 3: Today we captured and released zebra (to be released at a high school where they have a program in wildlife management and have a game farm of their own) at the Irvine Game Park—a beautiful place with plenty of zebra, eland, giraffes (saw 9), gazelles romping all around, and much more, including the maribu stork which looks like a cousin to the South American jabiru—about 6 feet tall. The zebras were donated by the Irvine folks for the school.
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