{"id":1789,"date":"2011-12-05T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2011-12-05T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T09:43:00","slug":"lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/12\/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Christine Burns ’14<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While we did not see tigers and bears, we did see lions and many other exciting African animals while on Safari this past weekend. \u00a0On Friday afternoon, we packed up our outdoor gear, and headed for Hluhluwe<\/a>\u00a0Game Reserve. The researchers at the park were kind enough to share some of their research and let us stay at their research station. It was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning Anna and I were woken up to the sound of monkeys jumping on our roof! It was crazy. We stepped outside of our little hut to find about thirty monkeys running from roof top to roof top. \u00a0Neither Anna nor I had ever seen wild monkeys before, so this was very exciting. \u00a0The trip only got better from there.<\/p>\n

We did two game drives at Hluhluwe and a boat ride at iSimangaliso Wetland Park<\/a>\u00a0formerly known as St. Lucia Wetland Park. The two game drives were incredible.
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\nThe night drive started at about 5:00 and we got to see a rhino and her baby cross the road in front of us, and a young bull elephant cross the road a few cars in front of us. We also saw a large herd of Cape Buffalo. \u00a0 Although my favorite part of the night game drive was the lions.<\/p>\n

At first we only saw the lions fro a distance, but later in the night we came upon them again in the middle of the road. Before I knew it, our driver had driven our vehicle into the pride of lions. It was\u00a0exhilarating\u00a0to be so close to such impressive animals. There were about 8 in total. Six were female, and two were young males. At one point we were entirely surrounded! It was unreal. As we headed back to our starting point, we came upon the head male of the group. Although I only glimpsed him for a second, he was beautiful.
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\nThe next morning we got up bright and early (4:10 am) so that we could do a morning game drive. This time we got to see the sunrise over the landscape. \u00a0We also came across a few animals on this ride. \u00a0We saw zebra and giraffe. \u00a0My favorite part of this day was actually at iSimangaliso. \u00a0There we encountered many birds, two\u00a0crocodiles, and soooooo many hippos. Hippos are my favorite animal so I was thrilled to get to see them up close in the wild. It was an amazing weekend, and I feel so\u00a0privileged\u00a0to have gotten a chance to see so many awesome animals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Christine Burns ’14
\nWhile we did not see tigers and bears, we did see lions and many other exciting African animals while on Safari this past weekend. \u00a0On Friday afternoon, we packed up our outdoor gear, and headed for Hluhluwe\u00a0Game Reserve. The researchers at the park were kind enough to share some of their research and let us stay at their research station. It was an amazing experience.
\nSaturday morning Anna and I were woken up to the sound of monkeys jumping on our roof! It was crazy. We stepped outside of our little hut to find about thirty monkeys running from roof top to roof top. \u00a0Neither Anna nor I had ever seen wild monkeys before, so this was very exciting. \u00a0The trip only got better from there.
\nWe did two game drives at Hluhluwe and a boat ride at iSimangaliso Wetland Park\u00a0formerly known as St. Lucia Wetland Park. The two …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19448,42301],"tags":[42682,34237,42683,42681],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change-2","category-climate-change-mosaic","tag-african-animals","tag-christine-burns","tag-fun-adventures","tag-safari-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}