Mantimahle Dam, Kruger National Park
Location: Mantimahle Dam Between Tshokwane and Skukuza on the H1-2, Kruger National Park, South Africa. Date: 19th June 2011 "Have water, will come ", so said the herd of buffalo, the impalas, the waterbuck, the monkeys and the hippo. The oxpecker replied that as long as the buffalo and the buck were going, so were they in the for the ride, provided that the aforegoing species maintained a good infestation of ticks on their hides. The stork with its wooly neck offered to keep a lookout for the king of the jungle. The impalas played whilst the cats stayed away. The monkeys acted as monkeys would. The buffalo with some new arrivals were too hot to engage in anything meaningful, except to occasionally remind the oxpeckers with a swift swirl of their tails, that the latter were still a nuisance even though they performed some good pest control services. He hasn't st...