On our recent visit to Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park the babies of a wide variety of animals and birds were much in evidence.
Many of the new arrivals were enjoying newly made friendships, like this warthog piglet and nyala lamb in Mpila camp:
Nyala and warthog playing in Mpila
Nyala and warthog playing in Mpila
Nyala and warthog playing in Mpila
The African bush is not by any means a child-friendly environment however, as this little Egyptian gosling’s experience illustrates. Newly hatched, it was following its parents to a pond somewhere in the wilds and was obviously struggling to keep up in the extreme December heat. Not off to an easy start…
Tough beginning for an Egyptian gosling
Tough beginning for an Egyptian gosling
Tough beginning for an Egyptian gosling
You can click on the images above for a clearer view. This week’s photo challenge theme from WordPress is “Beginning“
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Love your pictures… 🙂
Happy New Year. Best wishes to you.
Thank you very much Bams, and happy 2014 to you as well!
Oh such a cute friendship. The first couple of images warmed up my heart. Wish you and yours a Happy New Year!
Everything of the best to you as well for 2014 Charu, thank you very much!
That first set made me smile. Hope your new year’s off to a great start.
janet
Thank you Janet! Our new year’s made all the better thanks to your visits and kind comments!
Love the way there is cross-species interaction amongst the young – and a warthog and nyala make for the oddest pair 🙂 Watched a baby dassie dashing around after a young mongoose, having a game of tag, until the dassie parents chased the mongoose off.
Sounds like dassies are strict parents Liz 🙂
I would have loved to watch the dassie and mongoose’s antics!
Charming images. 🙂 Happy new year to you. Here’s to more beautiful Safari images and success. 🙂
Thank you for the warm wishes Imelda! May 2014 be filled with blessings for you as well!
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love the photo of the gosling and the animals at play 🙂 happy new year
A happy new year to you too KZ! Thanks for visiting!
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