Moses Animal Stories

The elephant shares a lot of similarities with humans in terms of emotions and behaviors. For instance when a baby is born, the other elephants in the herd would use their trunks to blow trumpet noise as a signal of joy. They would also mourn for the death of a follow elephant. However, elephants gestation is two years! Elephants would wait until it is appropriate time of when the food supply is good and environment is right. Elephants' ears act as a cooling fan for the body starting from the head downward to the back. It is also in the shape of Africa! In the herd, it is not the male elephant that leads, but the oldest female. The leader is based on seniority. If the female leader is pregnant, the second oldest female will lead. Additionally, elephants will purposely left their herd if they know their death is coming. Like the picture you saw earlier with the elephant corpse and vultures, that elephant must have left his/her herd to dead alone. Below is a picture of a baby elephant that was crossing behind our van. What is so 'awe'-some about this is the fact that his penis is quite long! This is what gets pointed out in a van full of medical students that is preparing to teach sex to secondary school. We are on top of our game!

 The ostrich is another story I promised to share. Male ostriches have blue skin while the female is pink. The male body/feather is black while the female is brown. Both would take turns guarding their eggs, male during the night (due to his black feather body) and female during the day (brown matches the tall grass plains). A single ostrich egg can weigh up 1 kg and could easily take up to 2 hours to boil through. 1 ostrich egg = 24 chicken eggs. Quite a massive omelet (if you were to make one). I have a good video I would have to post when the internet is faster of an ostrich that got scared by one van and then started running toward our van but realized we were a van then quickly turned around. It was quite amusing lol.

There is also two different types of zebras in this area: the common zebra and the "Grand" zebra. I am not positive if the name is truly 'grand' zebra, but this species is nearly extinct. The "grand" zebra has narrow stripes that does not run around their body. They have white bellies. The common zebra has wider stripes that run all around their body. I didn't realize there was such a difference. I would have assumed all of them were the same, just mutated. But listening to these facts here and there gives the safari drive a little more spice and connects me with the animals out there.