Amber Sky Creations

Setting: Bedinkt Waterhole on the Nossob road

The body was discovered early morning, lying in the road next to the Bedinkt waterhole.

Cause of death was determined as having its throad ripped open

This suspicious character was found loitering near the crime scene –

First investigations revealed that the suspect had an injured front paw (and a very full tummy) –

When confronted, the suspect denied that there even was a crime, quoting “The law of the Jungle.” Arrest was postponed to give the investigating officer time to consult with prosecutors about this alleged legislation.

Upon returning to the scene of the crime, it was discovered that the suspect had disappeared. It is suspected that he snuck across the border into Botswana during the night.

The cleanup crew had also already moved in –

No arrests were made.

CASE CLOSED.

On our last morning at Bitterpan, we woke up to find a Brown Hyaena at the waterhole. After seeing them visit the waterhole several times during our stay at Bitterpan, this did not cause stunned amazement anymore, but only excitement at getting another opportunity to get an even better shot.

Then, another Brown Hyaena appeared, to which the first one seemed to take violent exception. What followed, was probably one of the most incredible sightings of the trip, if not our lives. The two hyaenas chased each other around the camp, and even briefly rolled around in a very unfriendly embrace (behind some bushes where we couldn’t photograph it, of course), before one was chased off.

After all of this, we were of course way behind schedule and had to scramble to vacate our unit and load the car, but what an incredible way to end our stay at Bitterpan!

Tag: Brown Hyaena

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