The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

There are more hyenas in Etosha.

They are all the spotted ones again.

Those are also the only ones that are active at all during the day. This one was out for a walk.

Their walks are quite odd with the shorter rear legs.

Even hyenas need baths and it was hot out.

It didn’t get all the way in, perhaps the water was too cold for it.

Most of the time they were just hanging out in the shade like most other things. Poor giraffes are too tall to get into the shade.

Sleepy hyena trying to get a last minute nap before getting up for the night ahead and hunting time.

Today a whole herd of giraffes went down to the waterhole to have a drink.

So we got to see how funny they look bending over from the front.

It is even funnier than from the back.

It looks even funnier when they have their feet closer to the water and get more scrunched up.

 

They use their tongues to scoop the water into their mouths.

Then they lose half of it on the way back up.

And spend the next few minutes licking their lips.

You do not want to mess with a drinking lion.

So you definitely don’t want to mess with 4 drinking lions.

Let alone how ever many other lions were hiding around this construction site, which seemed to have been abandoned for some reason.

There were many good places to hide.

Including this nice stone lion den.

Which was probably built just for them.

And it was so conveniently located right near the water.

Where they could drink together.

Without breaking eye contact with you.

Just to make sure you know they are keeping an eye on you.

Etosha has natural and artificial waterholes, in the heat all the animals collect here during the day.

When it’s safe they would get deeper into the water, no crocs here.