This fish eagle was sitting by the river resting.
When suddenly he sensed something.
Another eagle!
Swooping in for the kill!
Or not.
Turns out they are friends.
Very close friends.
The newcomer had a look at himself in the mirror.
A very close look.
Then they gazed into each other’s eyes romantically.
And had a drink together.
There were a lot of birds in South Luangwa Park.
Some were pretty and some were boring.
And some were downright ugly.
And a bit evil looking.
Others just looked bizarre.
Some had iridescent green on their wings and were somehow still ugly.
Some build giant nests even though they are tiny birds. Look at the little hole!
This one was pretending to be pretty but is really just brown white and black and boring.
This one is bright and colourful and really pretty.
There were also flocks of cranes which look really funny when they fly.
The sun in Africa never seems to set properly, it just disappears into the haze.
It does turn a really pretty red colour when it is still quite high though.
The hippos get more active at sunset.
They yawn a lot.
This group had very small teeth but very big tongues for some reason.
The sun is still very pretty.
Baboons are huge. Almost as big as bush buck.
They carry their babies around on their tummies.
And give them hugs.
And groom them even when they don’t want to sit still.
Sometimes they give them piggy back rides.
Sometimes this ends with Mom sitting on the baby.
Other times baby falls off and has to catch up.
Baby baboons are cute.
There were a ton of hippos in South Luangwa park.
This really must be more than one harem.
There are even more that you can’t see because they are underwater.
There were more outside of the water. This one was just standing there getting groomed by the birds.
Which was weird, because there was not much to eat in the bare mud.
