{"id":724,"date":"2006-12-25T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=724"},"modified":"2006-12-25T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T17:11:00","slug":"lots-to-see-on-the-wild-animal-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/lots-to-see-on-the-wild-animal-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots to see on the wild animal cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post I talked about the wild animal cam<\/a> on a South Africa game reserve that I’ve been watching. Things have been getting good on the cam. Saturday night when I got home, I turned it on and they had a close-up of a zebra drinking. Sunday morning when I woke up, there were wildebeest and zebras grazing, and about an hour later a giraffe showed up at the watering home. The camera was able to zoom in so close that you could see its tongue moving as it drank.<\/p>\n

Then things really heated up last night. Several lions were asleep near the watering hole. After about an hour, the camera panned around (it is mounted on a tree and can pan a full 360 degrees) and we could see a herd of wildebeest approaching. Uh-oh, I thought, those wildebeest don’t know what they’re about to step into. The cam panned back around to the watering hole for a close-up of a lioness. About 30 minutes after that, it panned back around to a shot of three more lions standing over a dead wildebeest. They rested for a while, then began to feast. Surprisingly, no vultures showed up.<\/p>\n

8 to 10 AM our time (Central time) seems to be a great time to view the camera, as that’s right before sunset at the game reserve. Sun comes back up around 9 PM our time, and that’s a good time for viewing too because all the animals come for a morning drink. The camera is active during their night\/our day, with black-and-white night vision images. As of right now the lions are still working on the wildebeest.<\/p>\n

I got mostly books for Christmas, including trivia books, a bartender’s guide, a 2007 World Almanac, and Barack Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back in Memphis tomorrow night in time for trivia night at the Saucer. In the meantime, I have Internet access here in Little Rock and will continue to post if I think of anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"