Africa Wild

Yesterday this pic was posted on Latest Sightings FB page:



Lesego Nko made this statement on the SANParks FB page today:

Dear All;
This is in regards to the picture that was posted on Latest Sightings of a "Skinned Impala seen on the H1-3 on the 31st of January."
The existing theory is that the impala might have been hit by a speeding vehicle and dragged for a distance. When that happens, the skin comes off .
Investigations are underway but since we don’t have a witness, it will take time.

In my opinion, there is no ways this impala was dragged behind a vehicle. This impala was killed and skinned by someone who knows what they are doing!

A good subject for speculations of all kind

No ways this was hit and dragged so the skin came off. You can see the trail where it was dragged from the bush.

Flutterby wrote:In my opinion, there is no ways this impala was dragged behind a vehicle. This impala was killed and skinned by someone who knows what they are doing!

I have to agree

There is no way that anything other than (an experienced) person skinned that

Although it seems a little odd to dump it in the middle of a road

It is either roadkill or dragged from the bush, probably the former. Either way, the culprits were surprised, so probably at night.

This is the way we are headed, and what a ridiculous SP response!

Toko wrote:

A good subject for speculations of all kind

I agree - to me it looks like it was an animal skinned by poachers in the bush with the possible intention to collect at an opportune time – possibly hidden in a tree or bush not too far from the road – which was found by some predator and dragged onto the road before being disturbed by a passing car

The animal was skinned by a poacher he dropped it or leave it in the veld .Definitely he was/is a amateur because poachers that is long in the game take the carcass away and skinned it at a safe place .like home. We can assumed that he travel by car , near the road.If that was not the case then we got serious problems as only personel in the park could walk in the veld kill and skin a animal.
The red light is that somebody has the "confidence" to do something like this without fear that he could be caught.