African fauna

sunny wrote:

just as well the oryx have a quiet evening! sometimes I get quite tense watching your dramas unfold haha
is your tree an acacia?

       no Annette, it's a customised pine! :)

Another evening in South... African France

I hope the leopard willcatch something for dinner

I hope too but.. just wait and see Christophe!

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by Kinder surprise! :)

what wonderful scenes Alain! your kinder collection is growing very nicely now:)
the hippo is a very impressive sculpt, lots of body mass and nice lines. It looks really good from the aerial view.
I don't recognize the chimp figures. Are they natoon 2023 ones?

Nice photos, especially the first one. congratulations

Many thanks to you four Taylor, Andreas, Annette and Fernando!

sunny wrote:

what wonderful scenes Alain! your kinder collection is growing very nicely now:)
the hippo is a very impressive sculpt, lots of body mass and nice lines. It looks really good from the aerial view.
I don't recognize the chimp figures. Are they natoon 2023 ones?

No they are not, they are much older! :)

Nice pics Alain, I am always delighted to see that your imagination manages to give life to plastic animals, whether "serious" models or Kinder... It's magic!

Thank you Christophe!

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"Wow! how interesting!.."


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.. but the gazelles saw the leopard..



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"No way to catch one now!.."



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On an open field, the gazelles don't fear any leopard..

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.. but there is another far more threatening cat!..



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.. above all if they are twoo!..

THE END

(Thomson gazelles from Schleich and Safari ltd, hungry leopard from Papo and CollectA, cheetas from Papo)

I LOVE your story telling!

Many thanks to you both Paige and Andreas!

Fantastic once more! Cheetahs are more specialized predators but less versatile and leopards are smart enough to let the hard job to the cheetahs stealing later their prey. You should tell your leopards that stealing is not fair, but the fact is that these two fascinating apex predators can share their territory and prey even if it is just partially.

Thank yoy Rogério and yes you are right, the most problem for cheetas is to keep the preys they have caught for, hunting during the day, vultures show immediatly to other stronger hunters (leopards but above all, yaenas and lions) their dinner places!

Excellent story Alain

Roger wrote:

Fantastic once more! Cheetahs are more specialized predators but less versatile and leopards are smart enough to let the hard job to the cheetahs stealing later their prey. You should tell your leopards that stealing is not fair, but the fact is that these two fascinating apex predators can share their territory and prey even if it is just partially.

Caracal wrote:

Thank yoy Rogério and yes you are right, the most problem for cheetas is to keep the preys they have caught for, hunting during the day, vultures show immediatly to other stronger hunters (leopards but above all, yaenas and lions) their dinner places!

There's an impressive episode about hunting cheetahs in the Apple "Earth at night in colors" series.

Caracal wrote:

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excellent photo story, as always! I really like this angle of the alert one!

Thank you Annette!

The persuit



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It began at the sunrise..


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.. and the night is soon coming..



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They know he is there, hidden in the high grasses.. tired..


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He would like to have a rest..


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.. but he must flee..

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.. further..


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.. to stop and face..

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.. and breathe!..

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.. maybe to kill the closer hunter..


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.. But the terrible blows of his pawns have no effect on the spear..

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.. and he is not alone..

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.. He must disengage..

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These enduring hunters belong to the same "marane"..

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Their scarifications show they already killed a lion.. alone!.. They have not to prove their courage.. just to push away this cow-killer as far as possible from their pastures ..or to kill him!

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The night will break the hunt very soon..

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.. just has to hold til there!..


THE END


(lions from CollectA, Mojo fun and Papo, hunters from Schleich)

Absolutely fantastic!
Naturally, the focus are your photographing skills and how you translate it into a story. though, as a collector, I must say your pictures also show that this last generation of lion figures is really good. We hardly couldn't find a good lion at this scale 10 years ago and now they're noble, beautiful and realistic.