As if I dont have enough to worry about....

http://www.zimdiaspora.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10775:15-000-crocodiles-escape&catid=38:travel-tips&Itemid=18

What was it before the crocs? Leopards? Was it leopards?

Or is this guy returned to circling the homestead?

Hope you're not afraid of a few spiders, you sissy.

Africa's tough..... even cycling is dangerous

They are just cute animals Roop if you know how to approach them.

That's friggin hilarious.

  A quote from the zimdiaspora article states: 

"Experts say saltwater crocodiles are responsible for more human fatalities

per year than any other predator. They are strong swimmers that are well

adapted to the water, which is where they do nearly all their hunting."

Damn,  I thought they were arboreal! 

Anyway, I dunno why they mention saltwater crocs, these are Nile Crocs

Are there saltwater crocs in Africa?

Nope, I think only in AUS

That is what I thought. Then it seems that saltwater crocs are better swimmers than we thought. Sidney to Capetown is quite a trek. 

Yup, and from there making their way to the great grey-green greasy Limpopo river, all set about with fever trees.....

 The only explanation for this occurrence is global warming. Transoceanic carnivorous reptiles, heavy rains, attack antelope- our carbon footprints just got a lot more dangerous. 

Dang, now I have to read this again...

IN the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldn't pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant--a new Elephant--an Elephant's Child--who was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions. And he lived in Africa, and he filled all Africa with his 'satiable curtiosities. He asked his tall aunt, the Ostrich, why her tail-feathers grew just so, and his tall aunt the Ostrich spanked him with her hard, hard claw. He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad, broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! He asked questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity!

One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this 'satiable Elephant's Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, 'What does the Crocodile have for dinner?' Then everybody said, 'Hush!' in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.

By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my 'satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!'

Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'.........

 Well, there seems to be lots of spanking in that story. Sign me up!

I thought hippos killed more people than crocodiles in Africa?

Yup, I believe so. But nobody lost 15000 hippos lately......

Someone would surely notice if they did!