Young Wranglers
Hello out there,
Honestly, I can not remember the last time I stood in a zoo and observed an animal for more than ten minutes. To me, it seems like, they always are just lying around in some corner or lurking through their cage. Of course, is this not very interesting to watch and therefore I usually just take a look at the animals for a couple of minutes and then head on to the next cage.
Much more time I invested instead if I spot an animal on a safari drive in one of the big National Parks of Africa or Asia. Even though the animals are also not completely free here, they have at least much more space to move around and can better interact with conspecifics and others.
Just like in the Addo Elephant National Park near Port Elizabeth in South Africa, where we spend quite some time observing a herd of elephants near a waterhole. The whole time something was happening and so did we not want to drive off. For example, did some more animals of other species come and join the elephants. But they did not care and instead started to shower themselves by throwing up water with their trunks.
Then at one point, two smaller elephants started to wrangle. Of course, this was a scene to be captured, since I have never seen something like this in a zoo. So I gut out my camera, pointed it at the two brawlers and pressed the shutter.