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Mosi-o-Tunya Game Reserve
This game reserve is on the Zambezi River upstream from Victoria Falls.
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The landscape is like this everywhere in the dry season, yet plants continue to hold their own while waiting for the rains
The first white rhino we saw (there are only three in Zambia).
FACTS:
White Rhinoceros: From the Afrikaans word describing its mouth: weit, meaning "wide"; early English settlers in South Africa misinterpreted the "weit" for "white". Square-lipped rhinoceros: Lacking a prehensile "hook".
Next to the elephant, the white rhino is the largest land mammal and can weigh up to 3.6 metric tons. Its two horns are positioned one behind the other and its thick hide is relatively smooth and light in colour. It is not, however, white. The young are quite hairy, but adults are hairless except for their ear rims, tail tip, and eyelashes. As with other rhinos, the white rhino has poor vision but a keen sense of smell. The white rhino is more placid and sociable than other species, often forming into small groups. So large and powerful are these animals they must give way only to the elephant. The white rhino is the same colour as a black rhino. The difference is the white is a grazer (flat and broad upper lip) and the black is a browser (prehensile-Lipped - a browser - adapted for feeding from trees and shrubs). The black rhino is an endangered species.
reference: http://www.rhinos-irf.org/rhinoinformation/index.htm
A monitor lizard
FACT:
If they lose their tail it does not return
Some of the many giraffes in the reserve ... very quiet and inquisitive
The second of three white rhinos in Zambia
The third of the three white rhinos in Zambia
There were many burchell's zebras on the reserve
What happens to a tree when the elephants decide to debark
The first sundowner stop .. a tradition while doing game drives
Closeup of the giraffe
The site of the original town of Livingstone
A herd of water buffalo
300mm zoom of a large resting warthog
The 380mm version with an oxpecker on its face
A waterbuck
Burchell's zebra
Another old car in excellent shape ... nothing to do with the trip
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