Marie se Draai

[Tina]

05.10.2013

on the way back we took the main road

[Tina]

[Tina]

09.10.2013

[Mel]

That PCG got quite close to the cobra. What happened next?
Did it try to attack or was it just waiting for a food delivery by the snake?

Honey badger - how very (Glad, all smileys are green here anyway,
otherwise the colour of my face would betray me )

[Toko]

Ja, the cobra and the goshawk look like a good story to tell us

[Mel]

My kudu 'collection' from Marie

20/10/2011


Was quite exciting because it was the first thing we ever saw at Marie -
apart from those jackals and oryx, that is.

19/03/2013


A mad oryx came charging out of the dunes and made sure the kudus left his area.

[Tina]

sorry about the cobra/PCG confusion

I was there and to me it was obvious

We saw the PCG on the ground and stopped hoping for a honey badger somewhere around. In this case it was not a honey badger but a snake which inspected all the holes. The PCG was waiting patiently for a snack but was not successful. Finally the cobra disappeard into one of the holes and left the disappointed PCG alone. No harm done to the snake.

[Toko]

Hm, sometimes the PCG hunt with the cobras waiting for prey missed by the snake and sometimes they prey on snakes. Do they only take mole snakes or could it be a Cobra, too

[Mel]

I have read about a PCG taking a Cape cobra, but I'm not sure that it was a grown snake.
I rather assume it must have been a young one as the adult version might prove to be too dangerous for a goshawk.
Presumably, it's more common for the PCG to use the snake as a 'partner' in hunting, meaning the PCG will snatch
the prey the cobra flushed out from somewhere.

[Mel]

Lots of rain in April 2011