Looking for photos of sheep and goats.

[Nomad64]

I could tell you were not dragged out on canned safari to see the big five (or whatever number they are) none of which have horns and are so not interesting to me.

(You can imagine what I would be like on safari. I DEMAND ONE CRYPTID AND SUMMAT TO EAT)

(`The Spotted Lion` by Gandar Dower (?) is a great safari book, if you like that sort of thing. He is not, um, a photographer but his slapdash pictures add to the charm)

I am traumatised by public speaking too but I still have to do it. The perils of being a Great Scholar.

Anyhow, one beast I left out...sorry guys.

I need pics of a motzerella cheese buffalo.

Rhinos and buffalos both have horns (which is the downfall of the former) and are included in the "Big Five" but for my money, hippos are far more impressive than buffalos which despite their formidable reputation are just big cows.

I always used to feel sorry for the guides desperately trying to find the "Big Five" for their pampered guests so they could tick them off and head back to the pool and cocktails at their luxury lodge away from the dust and heat and all those boring animals not on the list!

Here is a buffalo that has been well and truly mozzarellad!



I'll look out for the Spotted Lion - my go to guides were the Richard Estes Safari and Mammal Behavioural books - not ID books but fascinating insights into what animals are doing and why.

As for cryptids - I have got a blurred picture somewhere of a Tanzanian or Ugandan monkey only discovered in either the 1990s or noughties.

 

[Broch]

Great photos Nomad; I won't bother offering any of my antelope (mainly shot in Namibia too) - but here's a water buffalo (note, pedantically, mozzarella cheese is made from the milk of the Italian Mediterranean water buffalo which I believe is a sub-species or a specific 'breed'). These are the Asian water buffalo and used in the UK which I believe are Bubalus bubalis.

 

[Tengu]

Thanks Broch, but I will need your name to credit you

 

[Tengu]

And Wanderer, BTW

 

[C_Claycomb]

I don't know how you can have such a learned paper without any reference to the North American Jackalope......

What you get for demanding a cryptid...with horns.

 

[Nomad64]

(`The Spotted Lion` by Gandar Dower (?) is a great safari book, if you like that sort of thing. He is not, um, a photographer but his slapdash pictures add to the charm)

Thanks for the recommendation Tengu - I picked up a cheap, scruffy 1937 edition of K Gandar Gower’s Spotted Lion.

Only had a quick flick through it - looks interesting, very much of its time but a lot more readable than Laurens Van der Post who (although he has his many admirers), I find excruciating to the point of being almost unreadable.

I will enjoy reading it.

 

[santaman2000]

I don't know how you can have such a learned paper without any reference to the North American Jackalope......

What you get for demanding a cryptid...with horns.

Not true horns though as they shed then annually.

 

[santaman2000]

Rhinos and buffalos both have horns (which is the downfall of the former)....

If I remember correctly rhinos don't have true horns; they're just solidified hair.