Taken in Kegalle, Sri Lanka (near Kandy) in May of 2015
DAILY PHOTO: Asian Elephants, Sri Lanka
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Category Archives: Animals
DAILY PHOTO: Creatures of Victoria Falls National Park
Impala — you can tell by the “M” on their backsides
Baby in a tree
Gazelle (I think a Puku Gazelle, but I’m no expert.)
Water Monitor
Warthog
Baboon, mother and baby
Cape Buffalo
Taken in April of 2017 in Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls) National Park; Zebra
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POEM: Amboseli
belly-deep in glacial runoff
amid an emerald sea
a mud-caked troupe of elephants
the marsh free of acacia trees
Kilimanjaro looms in the distance
the source of all subsistence
if it should go
they’ll never know
it’s a death they can’t outdistance
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DAILY PHOTO: Barachukki Monkey
Taken in July of 2014 at Bharachukki Falls in Karnataka
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DAILY PHOTO: Zoo Creatures of Mysore
Taken in November of 2013 in Mysore at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens
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DAILY PHOTO: White Deer of Mysore Zoo
Taken in November of 2013 in Mysore
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DAILY PHOTO: Napping Hippos
Taken in April of 2017 on the Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia
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DAILY PHOTO: Why the Zebra Has Stripes
Taken in April of 2017 in Mosi Oa Tunya (Victoria Falls) National Park
Chobe National Park, Botswana
I heard a person — looking at a solitary zebra — say, “That is horrible camouflage! How is it not extinct?”
The answer is found by looking at zebras in a group. When they run in a herd, it becomes impossible for a predator to distinguish one from another. Heads merge with hindquarters merging with a shoulder. They become an amorphous monochromatic cluster with nothing to bite onto.
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Bamboo Haiku
bamboo copse
groans in subtle wind
no space between
crows rule
the bamboo arch
over the road
bamboo grove
carpeted in grainy beige
alien landscape
plastic cup
gripped in crow’s beak
frat boy style
pink blossoms
will soon bleed onto
bamboo pollen
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DAILY PHOTO: Curious Giraffe
Taken in May of 2017 in Amboseli National Park, Kenya
