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[gini]

I missed that - what a shame work keeps me away from things I love!

I found I had to turn the sound down or off because after a while I had ringing in my ears from the insect and bird sounds. I was "hearing" it long after I had shut down the computer.

Their forum is filled with information. I haven't joined but they do share a huge wealth of knowledge which is so helpful in enjoying and understanding everything that you are seeing.

[Lizzie]

I keep the sound turned down very low also but I'm also aware from reading the posts on the forum that I'm missing a number of animal calls. Of course, the buffalo made so much noise I had to turn it down! They mentioned that they hadn't seen buffalo since Christmas Eve so I'm thrilled that I checked in just at the right time. There was a hyena also - which I thought was an animal similar to a large weasel. The way it ran forward with it's belly low, it's long body, and the whiteness of it's fur didn't indicate hyena to me.

[junescrater716]

Omg Omg Giraffe Giraffe!!!!

[Lizzie]

Lions drinking.

[ramanth]

I missed them! Drat!!

[Lizzie]

It was really frustrating. By the time I checked into the forum that they really were lions, zoomed in here to sound the alert, they had finished drinking (two lionesses) and were walking away. Because the cam operator is away, we kept hearing their noises but could only see the empty watering hole. Now we are wondering if these were the lions that tried to take down the mother giraffe that we saw injured a few days ago.

Edited to add: Here is the link to the video of the lions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Wom_GQg4w

And here are the three Cape Buffalo taking a drink & bath at 3am:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNaprMNNj8

And the buffalo that didn't want to come out of the water (I thought he could't get out, he walllowed around bellowing for so long:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr7BF_JcrGM

[pitc9]

Bath Time for the Wildebeest.

[ramanth]

Thanks for sharing those videos Lizzie!