Do Lions prefer Buffalo for dinner?
Or would they rather have smaller bites?
– like Wildebeest, Zebra or Impala?
Lions prefer to hunt Zebra and Wildebeest!
– these animals are slower and easier to catch than gazelles and small antelopes.
Hunger may drive them to attack larger prey – buffalo, giraffe, even rhinoceros, hippopotamus and elephant calves. These are all dangerous animals to interfere with and the lions often get injured.
Adult Giraffes eat about 60kg of leaves every day
Giraffes can actually last longer without drinking water than camels! They will go up to 3 weeks without a drink. When they do drink, they’ve been known to down 12 gallons in one sitting.
Greater Kudu is one of the largest antelopes
Sharpe’s Grysbok is a shy antelope
Vervet Monkeys normally have one newborn at a time
They spend their first week clinging to their mother’s stomach.
Hakuna Matata
– the Warthog can live for up to 17 years of age.
Elephants are the world’s largest land animal!
Hippos are considered the second largest land animal on Earth
To stay cool in the blistering African heat, hippos spend most of their day in rivers and lakes.
The Southern Ground Hornbill is one of the “Big Six” bird species
together with The Saddle-billed Stork, The Martial Eagle, The Lappet-faced Vulture, the Kori Bustard and the enigmatic Pel’s Fishing Owl
Saddle-billed storks are carnivores
Most of their diet is fish
The Cape Griffon Vulture is among the largest raptors in Africa
– their wingspan expands as wide as 2.6 meters.
The Go-away Bird gets its name from its call
It has a distinctive loud alarm call (“quare”, rhyming with “square”) fancifully sounding like “Go-away”
The White-Fronted Bee-Eaters live in clans
Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ which assist in raising the young.
