Africa Wild

Due to the uneventful day's drive, and our excitement over the jackal family the previous evening, we decided to stay in camp the 2nd evening, hoping for another glimpse of this cutie pie.


Much to our delight, there was not just ONE,





not just TWO,







but THREE pups!








Two of the three were quite curious and began to venture further afield than mom was comfortable with.








Quick to the rescue, she scooped them up,





and returned them to the safety of their burrow.

It's the first time that I see Jackal cubs! What a luck

Also never saw that small and cute jackal pups, ExFmem

they are goregous

ExFmem wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:39 pm (Note:Just to clear up some confusion here, being the superb birder that I am, the "Have/Have Not" bird is a Lanner Falcon. It's the collage before that where the Red-necked Falcon is shown and titled as such.)

Aha...thought they looked different.

What a rare sighting, Ex!

Yes, the cubs can be quite adventurous!

Incredible! On all our trips so far, I've managed to see BBJ cubs only twice and both sets were definitely bigger than those cutie pies you saw!
And again, something very precious you don't get to see too often They possibly emerged for the very first time, but at least not too long
before you saw them. Sooooo small

Also - interesting to see how the animals are not afraid of people and act comfortable and confident around them. If those jackals were
truely wild, I doubt the would rear their cubs so close to humans. But that's what feeding does to them, I suspect

They are so cute

Those jackal pups are too cute!!

IMO they are less cute than most of the other cubs

Sis, Pumbaa, Flutts, RP, Mel, and Alf, thanks for sharing my enthusiasm over the jackals.

Strangely, I'm not sure very many others noticed them. They were moderately far away (the pics are cropped quite a bit as you can tell from the "noise" that shows up depending on the light available that late), but still in plain sight. I thought once others heard about them there would be people walking between the tents to see and/or take pics. Never happened, thankfully.

Mel, they kept their eyes on the tents, and never ventured closer. As you will see in the next entry or so, they weren't completely comfortable at all.