David, Benji and I were driving along doing 100 kph on a dirt road in southern Namibia. It was a debilitating 45 degrees Celcius outside (naturally, the car didn't have AC) and we were seeing no birds at all. However, we noticed that every few kilometers along a certain stretch of road there were animals hanging dead on the barbed wire fences. The second time we noticed we pulled over to have a look. We were shocked to find single wild cats hanging from the fences on opposite sides of the road, and an
aardwolf tossed under a roadside bush. We soon found a leg trap (
unoxhaka in Zulu, according to David) under the fence nearby. An animal had dug under the fence, making a convenient thoroughfare for other animals to get past the manmade obstacle. The farmer (mostly sheep in this area), had been trapping the animals and leaving them for dead, then tossing them onto the fence. A few kilometers later we came across the wild cat in the photo, whose foot had been snapped off by the trap. We stole the trap (which was later discovered by customs officials at the border crossing back to South Africa, but that's another story), and off we were on our way to Fish River Canyon (see photo below), the world's second biggest, apparently.
David, Benji and I were driving along doing 100 kph on a dirt road in southern Namibia. It was a debilitating 45 degrees Celcius outside (naturally, the car didn't have AC) and we were seeing no birds at all. However, we noticed that every few kilometers along a certain stretch of road there were animals hanging dead on the barbed wire fences. The second time we noticed we pulled over to have a look. We were shocked to find single wild cats hanging from the fences on opposite sides of the road, and an aardwolf tossed under a roadside bush. We soon found a leg trap (unoxhaka in Zulu, according to David) under the fence nearby. An animal had dug under the fence, making a convenient thoroughfare for other animals to get past the manmade obstacle. The farmer (mostly sheep in this area), had been trapping the animals and leaving them for dead, then tossing them onto the fence. A few kilometers later we came across the wild cat in the photo, whose foot had been snapped off by the trap. We stole the trap (which was later discovered by customs officials at the border crossing back to South Africa, but that's another story), and off we were on our way to Fish River Canyon (see photo below), the world's second biggest, apparently.
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