The wild things ~ part two

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Thank you so much Lynda for your comment on the first post about Lion Country Safari - what a terrific trip you had huh! How incredibly lucky.

Chimpanzee above - UGH I hate anything in the monkey family but what can I say, they were there so I had to take photos! They also have White Handed Gibbons there - swinging from ropes around and around and around its play area. Did you know that monkeys can't swim? So Lion Country Safari surrounded their space with a moat .... smart huh! Anyway, the chimps come from the forests and rain forests of central Africa, weigh up to 175 pounds and have a life expectancy of 60 years.

Above and below are Greater Kudus - the color is off in the photos but they are neat looking fellas - with their stripes. Kudus hale from eastern and southern Africa. They are members of the antelope family and can weigh up to 690 pounds.

Below an Asiatic Water Buffalo who can weigh up to 1 1/2 tons! Nice algae huh!?!

Ostrich with Waterbuck above, Ostrich with automobile below.

Waterbucks are from Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Males have horns, females don't. They elude predators by submerging in water up to their nostrils!

Ostrich come from African grasslands also south of the Sahara desert. They are the world's largest living birds - up to eight feet tall. The contents of ONE ostrich egg contains the equivalent of two dozen chicken eggs!

Below are Gemsbok (did I put this picture in the previous Safari post hmmmmm). Cute mask they have - do you think?

Above male lions, below females. These and the elephants are the only animals that are "caged" so to speak at the Safari. They are not in individual cages, but their large areas is fenced off and they are not allowed to roam around in the Safari where the cars drive.

A herd of water buffalo in the distance below.

We are in Jacksonville now staying at an Elks Lodge for a while - don't know for sure how long. We may be here for our entire stay in the area or we may move down the road to a Moose Lodge or a Moose Lodge down the road from Chester's in Macclenny, which is 30 or so miles west of here.

We've been here two nights, staying two nights on the way here at the second worst campground we've stayed at in our 2 1/2 years on the road - Cape Kennedy KOA Campground in Mims - 130 miles south of here. UGH, what a place at $40. night. Oh well that's part of our adventure and it sure makes you appreciate the great campgrounds even more when you come across a nasty place!