It's just the scientific name for animals.
It's been calving season down in the Savannah (flood plain).
Quite a few new additions to the local herd, including this strange combination.
These two adults aren't really trying to take down that power pole.
They were just locking horns briefly over some point of contention.
The critter in the center of this photo seemed a bit suspicious of me and my camera.
But I was not about to argue with that hefty side of beef and it soon resumed its casual stroll.
So goes life down at the end of my street.
Now for a real treat you have to take a look at an amazing video on Robin and Roger's blog here.
A very contented looking herd! (Well, except the overly cautious one.)
ReplyDeleteYou are really close to the countryside! The end of my street is factories at one end and a small park at the other. it is several miles long in between those ends.
ReplyDeleteTheir relations were at the end of our street yesterday. Lots of black calves with all white faces. Hilarious that when one sees you, the whole herd swivels to look.
ReplyDeleteSo that's how a skunk makes a nest! And do they want a skunk making a nest on their property?
We live in dairy cow country here, and that means there are pastures full of males who are grazing not ever knowing their days are limited. I always yell to them, "Run for your lives, humans mean you harm." They never listen.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the shout out on our skunk video. We haven't seen her since that evening... so we're thinking she's tending to the kits. Hoping.
That field looks a lot like the one right around the corner from where my sister lives. Lot's of bovine activity going on.
ReplyDeleteLoved the wildlife video.
moo
ReplyDeleteIt's calving season on the grazing slopes out here. You know, spring time, birds and bees and etc...
ReplyDeleteThere is a distinctive moo, filled with tones of excoriation, on the hills. Birthing maybe, young calves a bit daunted by the new life, mothers with full udders, ???
Good thing you weren't wearing a red cape!
ReplyDeleteFormidable animals.
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