Tower of Babel…

On the Southern bank of the Mwagusi River in Ruaha Tanzania, the local pride of lion brought down a buffalo two weeks before.

Marilda and I were on a morning outing and weaving our way upstream from the picnic site saw this tower of 8 Maasai giraffe clustered together.

One of the funniest questions one of my colleagues have been asked was whether giraffe hunt in packs! This might sound like an incongruous question until you round the bend and see 8 giraffe with bones in their mouths…confusion of Babelic proportions.

This particular tower gathered at the buffalo carcass and were chewing on some of the bones to ingest calcium (trace-element) in an activity called osteophagea. It’s rather disconcerting to see a bunch of meek-looking giraffe chewing on bones…it forces you to question what you think you know about them.

Appearances could be deceiving and it was interesting to consider the possibility that what we think we know, might be an illusion…

Yours in contemplation,