Not the prettiest of our neighbours, the
noble wildebeest rarely makes it into the limelight of the Sand Rivers Blog.
This territorial bull from the Miombo woodland area doesn’t have the luxury of
blending into the crowd like the millions of his brethren that rumble past
Lamai every year.
He has to tough it out on his own until one of the breeding herds consisting of a few females and young deems his area suitable for a temporary stay
– he’ll try his best to keep them in but inevitably the grass will prove
greener at some stage and he’s have to watch them leave.
To reach these dizzy heights of success he
needs heightened senses and presumably a nervous, high strung disposition.
We’ve seen lions hunting them and their acceleration is incredible – the big
cats have to get the jump on a bull wildebeest to catch him. In lovely evening
light we recently watched this old pro flexing his muscles.
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