Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Weird wildlife





On a trip to the 'Burg in August, I stopped by the Wildlife Safari to kill some time and shot three zebras eating in perfect "uniform" order. A watusi with some big horns, a smaller antelope type animal that has some 'NASA-like' secret substance on its antlers after it has probably gored a few other safari animals. ( a larger antlope family animal had the same thing on its horns, too). Some years ago, the head vet told me they do this a fair amount when males get out of hand..looks like tennis balls but the substance, like play-doh until it hardens, is really out of this world. The bloody antlers is from the fuzz-like hair molting off an adult fallow deer's antlers. Painless but looks a bit awful.

2 comments:

Darla said...

I miss the 'burg wildlife sometimes!

katie said...

UGH! those bloody antlers are disturbing...