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Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:09 am
by Flutterby
Those are cuts.

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:47 am
by Lisbeth
How could it have happened :-?

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:57 am
by Richprins
The males fight very severely, Lis, and the loser has to go and recover somewhere!

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 2:04 pm
by Dzombo
Richprins wrote: Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:57 am The males fight very severely, Lis, and the loser has to go and recover somewhere!
Sometimes they don’t recover.
This one looks in a bad way

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 5:12 pm
by Richprins
:yes:

If you look back it seems they come here to die often...

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:16 am
by Flutterby
This looks like the same one.
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1 hippopotamus stationary on the H10 at the Lower Sabie bridge.
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Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:24 am
by Richprins
:shock:

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:05 am
by Mel
:-(

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:04 am
by Lisbeth
\O
The skin has broken :shock: Too much sun? :-?

Re: Flavour Of The Month - Oct 2012: L. Sabie & Low-Level Bridge

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:22 pm
by Richprins
It could be all sorts of things from fish and terrapins nibbling at the wounds to oxpeckers, which are terrible! 0*\

But this is especially bad. 0: