Speaking of large animals in Africa, you must first think of African elephants. Indeed, the African elephant is large and cumbersome and is the largest mammal on land. I still remember the most impressive episode of "Animal World". It is not a scene of lion hunting, nor a scene of a million-headed wildebeest hiding from the Nile crocodile when crossing the Marathon. It is an episode about African elephants.
On the arid prairie, elephants look steadily toward the water source, and Africa needs to replenish 30-50 gallons of water a day. Water shortage means death. A small elephant in the journey desperately chased the team. It didn't lift its head. It followed the mother's back, but the mother and the child were still behind. At a three-way intersection, they went in the wrong direction. The elephant did not escape the drought. He died on the road. Like the mother who kept the child's body for a long time, he did not want to leave. He kept licking the body of the elephant with his nose, hoping for a miracle.
When the aerial photography of the plane and the mother and child went in the wrong direction at the Sancha intersection, they wanted to tell them that they were going wrong, but as the host said, this is nature. To love nature, we must respect nature.
African elephant
Another great natural enemy of African elephants is human beings. Some people's favorite teeth have caused a large number of African elephants to be poached every year. Due to the large size and long ivory adult male elephants being killed in a large number, the breeding behavior has changed. The male elephant with smaller body and shorter ivory can proproduce more offspring. After this trend continued, the average length of ivory in African elephants was shortened, and even individual variability without ivory appeared. This process only took about 150 years, showing the degree of human persecution of African elephants.
Although the dry season is not the hottest season, the daytime sunshine is quite fierce. In order to avoid being burnt by the sun, clever elephants apply the mud in the mud to the body.
We live in a tent in Masai Mara. It is a few minutes drive from the gate of the reserve. Whether it is CAMP or LODDGE, it is surrounded by a fence. My husband is worried that there will be animals attacking us at night. I am very relieved. Kenya is a fairly mature tourist destination. Two nights of staying here, I can always hear the screams of an animal in the middle of the night, and I hear people creep. Getting up early is about to ask, but the chef first asked us, we replied: "Of course I heard, is that a wolf?" The chef told us that it was a hyena.
Hyena
There are four types of hyenas: spotted hyenas, brown hyenas, hyenas, and coyotes. What we see should be spotted hyenas. The hyenas don’t give a good impression. It’s all because they look ugly and eat a carrion. They often walk around the cheetah and the lion, stealing the prey that the cheetah and the lion catch. It’s not elegant. posture.
In fact, there is a certain misunderstanding in these understandings. In addition to robbing other animals' food, the spotted hyenas also hunt themselves. They usually fight in the body and fight at night. After hunting, they will excite the sound of “eat”. It's a bit like the sound of human beings, which is another reason why people are disgusted.
This is a spotted hyena that is about to be a mother. The spotted hyenas are generally inhabited. Only the female leader can give birth to the next generation. Other maternal hyenas can only help to care for the young spotted hyenas. This proves that this spotted hyena is the leader. In addition to living in groups, the spotted hyena has considerable freedom, and there are often cases of loneliness and individual hunting.
There has always been a question, why do cheetahs and lions let the hyenas take their hard-hunted food? In fact, hyenas have their own advantages, their biting ability is very strong, making cheetahs and lions fear, said that cheetahs have to be mentioned here.
Colleagues asked which one of the most favorite animals to see? I replied very simply: "Cheetah." If the lion is mature and stable, then the cheetah is the absolute handsome. No matter what position you can use a word to describe it, it is "handsom"
It was easier to see the time of animal hunting in the early morning and evening, so SUMMER took us on the road early in the morning, and sure enough.