Friday, January 23, 2009

Big cats


We went on a safari to this place where they have a lot of big cats, like lions and cheetahs and leopards. To see the lions and leopard, we stood on a balcony and watched them eat meat that people put out for them.

For the cheetahs, we just sat in the truck and a guy put up food for them. They didn't come close to the truck while they ate, but one did come about one foot away from the truck. But it didn't attack us, because it was scared of us. We drove a little bit more and the cheetahs followed us. We stopped and the driver pulled out a big zebra leg and threw it to the cheetahs. We watched them eat it right to the bone. I looked at them with my binoculars the whole time, they were really close up! Then, we drove back to the lodge and had hot cocoa because it was rainy and cold.

The lions ate the bone with the meat, because they could crush it. The leopards and cheetahs just ate the meat and not the bone, because their jaws can't crush the bone.

1 comment:

knot-head said...

What a neat experience!