Hi JYgrl!

I have been lurking too.  Then run in and chat.

(naps are always good! ) 

Hi everyone I'll be lurking too like I have been most of the day.  I'm gonna either clean my car or fall asleep I'm thinking fall asleep sounds better since the boys are napping too. 

Thanks hunjoro, what a neat story!

Impala drinking.  NK 

What a wonderful story...thanks for sharing that...

hunjoro wrote:

Re the creature from earlier, I thought it moved in a catlike manner, but I think was too small and dark for a leopard. I was thinking possibly African Wildcat, so I googled it and found this amusing folktale:

An African Fable of the Cat From: Rhodesian Native Affairs Department, 1948.

Once upon a time the cat did not live in the houses of men. She lived only in the bush or in the jungle.

One cat became friendly with a rabbit. She went everywhere with the rabbit and was astonished at the craftiness of her friend. One day a duiker (duiker or duyker: small african antelope), fought with the rabbit and killed it with its horns. As her friend was dead the cat lived with the duiker. Then the duiker was killed by a leopard, so the cat decided to live with the leopard. A few days later they met with a lion. The lion fought the leopard and killed it. The poor cat then made friends with the lion and lived with him until one day they met a herd of elephant. A huge bull fought with the lion and killed it.

The cat thought to herself, "I must make friends with an animal as large and strong as this elephant - surely nothing can defeat it!"

But her troubles were not yet over, for one day a hunter shot the elephant with a poisoned arrow and the elephant died.

Now the cat did not know what to do, for she had never seen a two-legged animal such as this. She thought hard and said to herself, "if this man can kill a huge animal like an elephant, I had better make friends with him so that I can live in safety."

She followed the hunter back to his home, and when the hunter entered his hut the cat crept up on to the verandah. She heard sounds of quarrelling in the hut and saw the man in flight from a woman who was beating him with a stick for stirring porridge.

The cat said to herself, "Now I have seen the strongest of all creatures - a woman!"

Ever after this the cat has lived in the huts with the women, because it is they who are all-powerful.

 

Re the creature from earlier, I thought it moved in a catlike manner, but I think was too small and dark for a leopard. I was thinking possibly African Wildcat, so I googled it and found this amusing folktale:

Once upon a time the cat did not live in the houses of men. She lived only in the bush or in the jungle.

One cat became friendly with a rabbit. She went everywhere with the rabbit and was astonished at the craftiness of her friend. One day a duiker (duiker or duyker: small african antelope), fought with the rabbit and killed it with its horns. As her friend was dead the cat lived with the duiker. Then the duiker was killed by a leopard, so the cat decided to live with the leopard. A few days later they met with a lion. The lion fought the leopard and killed it. The poor cat then made friends with the lion and lived with him until one day they met a herd of elephant. A huge bull fought with the lion and killed it.

The cat thought to herself, "I must make friends with an animal as large and strong as this elephant - surely nothing can defeat it!"

But her troubles were not yet over, for one day a hunter shot the elephant with a poisoned arrow and the elephant died.

Now the cat did not know what to do, for she had never seen a two-legged animal such as this. She thought hard and said to herself, "if this man can kill a huge animal like an elephant, I had better make friends with him so that I can live in safety."

She followed the hunter back to his home, and when the hunter entered his hut the cat crept up on to the verandah. She heard sounds of quarrelling in the hut and saw the man in flight from a woman who was beating him with a stick for stirring porridge.

The cat said to herself, "Now I have seen the strongest of all creatures - a woman!"

Ever after this the cat has lived in the huts with the women, because it is they who are all-powerful.

Thanks Alf,  mystery critter was not a porcupine.  Longer bodied for sure.

    THE   TWO MICROPHONES

My thinking is that the mic is so very sensitive that it was a bit further away then right at the tree... but not too far away just going by how easy it is to hear the rhino walk to the wh without being seen till much later.  pixcelations makes it hard to see anything small away from the waterhole as it is too.  I gotta leave pc again it is sure to return lol.

** PORCUPINE **

http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/porcupine

PORCUPINE

http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_porcupine.html

The African porcupine quills range from about 3" or 4" long to more than 12" long.  The average quill is about 5" to 10" long .  These quills can be used for fishing bobbers.