Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These are super Jayanand. This latest batch of photographs is really outstanding, even compared to your usual very high standard. Bravo, Frank On 21 Mar, 2012, at 15:26, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > The rarest sighting we had during our Tanzanian trip was undoubtedly > spending quite some time with a Striped Hyena and her cub on two occasions, > both around dusk. Let me point out that these animals are completely > nocturnal - so the rarity is in seeing them, not that they are endangered > or anything like that. Our driver, Ken, with 12 years of safari driving in > East Africa behind him, had only seen them briefly a couple of times in all > those years. They are almost completely scavengers, and this has led to > them being unloved across their range (Africa, Middle East and South Asia) > because of their purported habit of scavenging from human graves > > Both the days we saw the pair, the light was crummy, but here goes anyway - > the brown mound is the den: > > Feeding the Cub: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_06333.jpg.html > > Cracking Bones (it looked like a portion of an animal skull): > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07237.jpg.html > > Play 1: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07309.jpg.html > > Play 2: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07322.jpg.html > > Please see large. > > Comments and Criticism, as usual, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information