Surprise Dinner Guests
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GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Don't you just hate when this happens?I would love it, at least once!
Oh my goodness! I hope they like what I fixed!! What if they have food allergies?!?
Dawgluver
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I would love it too!
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
And to think tonight was the night I opted for popcorn! I didn't realize they have black tongues until I was watching a show about them on public TV.
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
They also can't announce their presence since their vocal cords are so long that they can't make sounds (some make a small mooing sound at birth, but that's it).
Well, I guess they could have knocked!
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Snip 13
Master Chef
That has happened to me! My table wasn't set so beautifully though. We were staying in a chalet in Botswana and a giraffe nicked my salad off the table. We also woke up one morning to find the monkeys drinking our beers lol!
purple.alien.giraffe
Executive Chef
At least they seem to have good table manners.
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
Wow!!!
Snip 13
Master Chef
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
True enough!It's Africa, what can you do?!
buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
i remember feeding a giraffe at a zoo in the catskills many years ago. man, those things have long, slimy tongues!
vitauta
Executive Chef
as i recall it, the giraffes i fed at the catskill game farm had tongues that was rough. i guess with the passage of some years, their tongues musta got wore down so they was slimy by the time you got to 'em, bt....
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Snip 13
Master Chef
as i recall it, the giraffes i fed at the catskill game farm had tongues that was rough. i guess with the passage of some years, their tongues musta got wore down so they was slimy by the time you got to 'em, bt....
Nope, they still have rough tongues. They need rough tongues to eat the leaves and thorns they eat
Bucky's giraffe must have been digging in it's nose ;p.
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buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
lol, maybe so, but then that's pretty impressive!
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
It's Africa, what can you do?!
And you weren't on the menu.
The least they could have done was to sit down to eat instead of standing while they ate and ran.
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vitauta
Executive Chef
Don't you just hate when this happens?
'please pass the acacia leaves'
(oops, where'd the pic go?)
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Snip 13
Master Chef
And you weren't on the menu.
The least they could have done was to sit down to eat instead of standing while they ate and ran.
I'm very glad I wasn't dinner
We have had many close encounters with wild animals living in SA and Botswana.
All the dangerous ones were in Game reserves but we've had a cheetah in our garden once. It escaped from The Cheetah Farm in De Wildt (Northwest Province) where we lived. A bit scary but luckily we were indoors.
The closest for me was wild pigs on Guam and a mountain lion who was stalking us on a hike. I've seen bear, but they are running away, they don't want an encounter as much as you don't. Yes, I wear bells when we go out on hikes.
Snip 13
Master Chef
That's pretty cool
Not sure if the bell thing would work in Africa, the lions might think I'm a stray cow and come hunt me down
That's pretty cool
Not sure if the bell thing would work in Africa, the lions might think I'm a stray cow and come hunt me down
Most bears are shy and loners, they don't even want to meet another bear. So if you make enough noise they will evade you. The cats, though...helps them track you. If a cat decides it wants you...they will stalk you all day, even have to be careful on trails in the city.
