Game Drive 15/01 Black backed Jackals
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Heather took us on a game drive to focus on mega herbivores, we were hoping to see the elephants, giraffe, hippo or rhino. We started with some colourful small birds such as the little bee eater, red back strike as well as a ground bird called the crested franklin. We then moved down the road and found a giraffe posing perfectly for photos, clear skies and green foliage standing side on and then working up along the drive path with us. It was a male giraffe; we know this by not having hair on the turrets near his ears. We also drove by some zebra that were casually out in the open, we just missed the elephants as the lodges have priority over GVI game drives, lodge guests are only here for a few days while GVI peeps are her at least 2 weeks mostly times 1 month. It was getting late, so we started on route to base.
We are driving casually and slowly as we are on a rocky road, we spot a small shadow in the distance and realise it a black backed jackal. It just sits there and looks at us in the path then flakes out and lays down. Her ears stayed up while her eyes close and then flicker open as a smell catches her attention. We look into the distance and coming towards us is another jackal. They were sooo cute and didn't care we were there, normally they run away as soon as they hear sound. We had to scoot so they disappeared off the track but as we went up the road another one appeared and then 50m ahead so di another, we saw a total of 5 jackals. That is a lot at once as normally you only see 1 or 2 and dissolve into the scrub quickly. Over the ridge we had to stop for a herd of impala, Heather looked through her binoculars and spotted another jackal behind the herd. Once the herd had passed there were another 4 jackals to be spotted, so in total we saw 9 black backed jackals. Now we definitely had to get a move on to get back to base on time.
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