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Young black rhino orphan, eating leaves. He does not seem to miss his horn
This yearling rhino, which is a pretty big animal, is being kept in a pen and fed until he is
big enough to be released. His horns have been cut down to decrease his value to
poachers. He walked over to the edge of the pen, gave us a disgusted “chuff” and went
back to eating lettuce. For now he has a pretty nice job.
We picked up rifles and some food stuffs just as the sun was getting low on the horizon,
and headed off to Fimbiri, our camp which is in the northern part of the conservancy. I was
jet-lagged and tired, but there is nothing like being in a new territory and seeing game to
perk you up. As we drove from the south of the conservancy to the north there was a little
less thorn bush and more mopane, acacia, Marula and seringa trees, but the country was
still pretty dry. We saw wildebeest, impala, eland and giraffe before it got dark. I was
starting to get pretty excited. A crowd of eland cows ran across the road in front of us,
moving with amazing grace and speed for such big animals. They dwarf elk but still seem to
glide when they run.
Eland cows flying across the road. They really can move
Fimbiri is on a Koppie (small hill) and when we arrived there in the dark we drove up a
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