Finding and interpreting the signs of the wild can be just as fascinating and rewarding as watching the actual wildlife that were responsible for it!
Wind-blown grass-stalks drawing semi-circles in the dust
Rhino tracks
What looks like a shoeprint is actually an imprint of an elephant’s trunk
Elephants enjoy walking along roads
A gaping hole in a termite mound is a sure sign that it was visited by an aardvark at some stage
Elephant tracks in baked mud
The remains of a millipede indicates a civet enjoyed a tasty morsel here
Nyala spoor
The comings and goings at the waterhole
Marula tree debarked by an elephant
“Signs” is the theme for this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge
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Daar is niks soos ‘n bietjie spoorsny op die Afrika vlaktes nie!!! 😉
Absoluut, gee n mens net nog n dimensie om te ervaar en waardeer.
Wild….not the kind of thing I see when I go for a walk. 🙂
Sadly not something we get to see everyday either, but we try to go look for signs like these whenever we get even the slightest of opportunites 🙂
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Sjoe – jou fotos oor tekens in die natuur is ongelooflik! Glo ek sal hier nog baie by julle kan sien en leer!
Baie dankie Spokie, en welkom hier by ons. Dit sal lekker wees as jy weer kom inloer!
Unique! And I’ll bet you knew them all. 🙂
Actually, the elephant trunk imprint had me fooled Gemma; I was sure we had found a human shoeprint, but then our ranger-guide on the Olifants Wilderness Trail started laying out the scene for us.
These are perfect for where you are. 🙂
janet
Thank you Janet!
Die natuur lees soos ‘n storieboek.Ons het die voorreg gehad om baie ure in die natuur saam met meester spoorsnyers deur te bring.Dis ongelooflik hoe hulle die tekens lees en presies weet wat daar gebeur het.Baie dankie Dries,pragtige foto’s soos altyd!
Die Boesmans praat mos van die “veldkoerant”, niemand kom darem naby hulle wanneer dit by spoorsnyvernuf kom nie!
Baie dankie vir die gawe woorde, Dina
I think you have to be a little bit smarter than the average to read these signs correctly!
You’ll be surprised how quickly you pick up on it Ideflex, I suppose we still carry all our primal instincts around with us daily 😉
Wonderful post – loved seeing the descriptions and got most of them wrong😣 Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot Tina!
Vol punte vir jou!
Baie dankie Tina!
So glad you placed the captions to identify each “sign.” The elephant trunk marks really fooled me… I had guessed it was a snake.
-Jane
Thanks Jane, happy to know we could show you something new!
Fascinating! I wonder what’s going on in that area.
Call me obsessive Eliz, but I also sometimes (well, often) catch myself thinking about all the beautiful places we visit and daydreaming about what may be going on there right at this moment 😉
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Absolutely loved this! Terrific stuff
Thank you Barbara, glad you enjoyed them 😀
I have just spent 16 days photographing those types of signs and never thought of them until I read you post. Oh! Well…at least we haven’t posted the same signs 🙂
The signs you posted carry with them a very important message Woolly, I’m glad you chose the entry you did for this week’s theme!
Awesome take on the challenge!
Thanks you Shelley, and welcome at de Wets Wild!
Great view on this week’ tropic! I was thinking then in the same direction but changed my mind.
Thanks Viveka! So much inspiration from nature, hey?
You’re so right …. I think sometimes that most answers is in the nature. *smile
So interesting to learn all these signs. Reminds me that there’s so much to learn if we take time to observe.
We absolutely agree MaameJ; mankind may have done many things a bit different if we lived closer to the ground.
Great selection of signs!
Thank you very much Hien!
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Really enjoyed your interpretation of “signs!” Thank you for helping us read them. We don’t get to see many elephant tracks around here 🙂
Just another reason to kayak in our direction guys 😉
Hoo boy! The crocs and hippos will have us for lunch. We’ll take the Land Rover, thanks 🙂
Excellent!
Thank you Jennifer, and welcome here!
Thank you!
Oh, MUCH more interesting than anything manmade ! – by a country mile !! 🙂
Of course you’ll not hear much disagreement from us. Thanks for the support M-R, we appreciate it a whole lot!
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Great interpretation!!!
Thank you Amy! 😀
Nice take on the theme!
Thanks P J B, so nice to see you around here again!
Thank you, I’m happy to be back 🙂
these are so fascinating! Thought of you last night as I watched a You Tube video of a baby elephant falling. He let out a cry and three mama elephants came running (running!!) to his rescue. I just wanted to cry it was so beautiful.
They’re such charismatic animals, aren’t they Lois!? We once watched a little one who couldn’t walk, because he was standing on his own trunk, and too “dumb” to figure out what the problem was 😀
Goeie interpretasie!
Baie dankie Vosperdruiter!