African fauna

really excellent photos!! I hope the oasis is very close

I hope too Annette! :-)

hard to rule!


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 Two young african buffaloes have been driven out from the herd by the bull and stayed together as a team..


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 They are unquiet..


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 and they are right because Elsa the lioness and her daughter are observing them for a while!..


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 Elsa sents her daughter to turn around the two bovids under the wind..


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 .. as she is approaching them hidden in the high grasses..



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 But she has been noticed!


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 The buffaloes go out from the deceptive grasses and reach an open and hard ground ready for the assault..


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Elsa's daughter turns them, roaring to get their watch..


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 The younger buffalo faces her immediatly!..


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 .. but not the other one who continues to fix Elsa..


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 The two companions form a good team..


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 .. no way to avoid horns  and maybe hard wound in case of attack like this poor Simba who could not join the chase today..


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 .. So the lioness let their game leave.. in good order!..


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 With one lioness or lion more, they could have caught the younger one!


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 THE END

(walking and crawling Elsa from Papo, walking and lying daughter from Schleich, rrroarring daughter from CollectA, buffaloes from Schleich and Papo)

Great photos again!

Thank you Roger! :)

Thank you Andreas! :)

Great story!

I love the Schleich lioness laying down & stalking Papo one!

Thank you Jolie! :)

that was a tense story!!
you are an excellent storyteller!!

buffalos will generally charge at lions that are stalking them. I watched a few buffalo from a herd repeatedly charge a couple of lions who were stalking them. They made the lions retreat back. The buffalo truly are fearless and brave and not afraid of lions. The lion may be the king of the jungle but the buffalos are the most dangerous if you are on their wrong side

Thank you Annette and you are perfectly right, buffalos are considered as the most dangerous animals in african savannah! :)

Wonderful story with great pictures and a lot of talent!
I am not sure buffalos are the most dnagerous. They cannot stand against rhinos, if you put a density of black rhinos similar to buffalos, I'm sure domino would be the favorite game in Africa. Hippos are also very dangerous, especially when they say hi to a visitor.

  Thank you Rogério! :)

unbelievable discovery of a new cat species in South Cameroon equatorial forest!


first shoots of what seems to be a "forest caracal" by the well known naturalist-ranger Daniel:


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surprised on the floor..



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.. he escaped by trees!

 "His cryptic spotted coat, shorter legs and longer tail are the ones of a forest dweller" said Daniel who proposes  "Caracal silvestris danieli" as taxonomic apellation. He added that this species was known for centuries by local people who call him "Mgwa" or "Nunda". Bernard Heuvelmans, the fondator of new cryptozoology science, had collected some testimonies from different african raining forest areas!

Good story! I don't know what is true and what isn't. Amazing that you managed to take photos of this rare animal .

What an angry kitty.   Great photos

Wow, very funny tale hahaha. You told it in very realistic manner

Many thanks to you four Andreas, Roger, Paige and Pardo!

Yes Roger and Pardo, it's a fake new I imagined after to have got this curious felid from Chap-meï who made me to think to the legendary mgwa purchased by cryptozoologists and revealed by Bernard Heuveulmans in his famous book "Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées"


Looking at this model, it's clear that the head is a caracals's one, but the body proportions and the coat are rather the ones of a climber cat, that's why I thought to a "forest Caracal".

What is surprising is that the main hypothesis for the Mgwa is the one of a giant golden cat who now belongs to the genus "Caracal" too!

At first, I got this Chap-Meï model to custom it in true caracal with a short tail and unicolour coat for I feel fustrate because of the lack of Caracals models by modern and main brands. I just have the Yowies UK 97(that I love!) and the Starlux ones. But since we'll soon have one from Schleich, I prefered to keep him as "forest caracal" who maybe will discovered in the future!  

Alain, I enjoy your observations. I also think the model is very charismatic despite not representing with accuracy any particular species.

I had to google his latin name! it's an interesting story and I am quite sure that there will be a forest caracal out there!
I really like the first Surprise pic
hopefully there will be more caracals for you to collect!

Thank you Roger and Annette!

Annette, you already encountered ranger Daniel (from Schleich) in many of my little stories so, since it''s he, who discovered this new cat species and gaved his own name in its latin appellation, the joke was  so evident to me that I couldn't imagine you would waste your time with google! I am sorry.. but a little happy too, if my little story could seem a little realistic to you! :)

At sunset, it is better to be prudent!


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the end

(from Schleich and Papo)

I don't know what I prefer the most Alain, your pics of the weather you have in the garrigue

Have I to understand that the sky was not so blue today on Lille?