South Africa: Madikwe, Day 4
On our last day, we finally got to see something we’d been hoping for: adult male lions We’d seen a couple of adolescents, but they didn’t have manes yet. This pride had two females and a bunch of cubs, with two males that spent time with both them and another nearby pride. We also spotted a black rhino, which is much rarer than the white rhinos we’d been seeing. (They’re nearly the same color – one ranger told us that the “white” in white rhinos is a corruption of “wide” – they were originally called “weidt mond” or “wide mouth” rhinos (I have no idea how the Afrikaans is spelled).
The other thing we saw a lot in Madikwe was the wild dog pack; there are two there, two of the biggest in South Africa.
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