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What is this kudu eating ?
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Safari-Hunt
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This is a couple of pics that I took from an kudu cow. Now the question is what is she eating ?

Some hints:


  • It is dry and not much to eat.
  • It is under a shady tree even if it is dry and the end of winter, end of August.
  • There is baboons also nearby.
  • It is of course part of a plant.
  • It is quite tough and took a while for her to swallow.








I will give the answer tomorow afternoon our time. Morning time US!


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The fruit of the sausage tree?
 
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Are Kudu, ruminants? If so she could be re-chewing a previous meal of some forage.


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The fruit of the sausage tree?


My guess as well, but I've never seen Kudu eat these! Elephant eat them all the time, though.


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Dung!
 
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Kind of looks like a hunk of elephant dung!


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Don't know what she is chowing down on but those are great photos. How close were you and what did you use to capture the images. Great job!!

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Thanx Phil,

Quite close 15 yards and the equipment was a Konica Minolta Dynax 7 D with a 100-300 mm 1:4.5-6.7 zoom lens from Sigma.


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looks like part of a palm frond maybe dropped from a Baboon!


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Klapperdop - or monkey orange's remains after the baboons opened it and ate most of the pips inside the fruit.

A type of wild coconut one can almost say.


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Agreed.
 
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Yes they are ruminants and no that is not a cud. Dr.C


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yukon delta
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That is not ele poop. It looks like something that might have passed through something already but not poop. It doesn't look very good to me.


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Pic number one looks like it could be a monkey-orange, but looks more fibrous in the following pics. I would say, given that it was under a big shady tree, most likely a Kigelia fruit, which is as hard as sin, so probably opened by an ellie or stick of dynamite?
 
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Yes, most of you were right the fruit of a sausage tree.

She sure was chewing and giving her jaw muscles a good work out.


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A friend of mine's mother in Namibia is having a hell of a time this month with Kudu.........

Translated from the German; "they are mowing her garden" Big Grin

She has promised to leave me the biggest bull...57-59 inches for next year. How will I make a stalk? Wink Might have to shoot the bugger after morning coffee and rusks Big Grin


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She may STARVE TO DEATH before then. . . .You'd better go now or let some other lucky soul have a shot at him! But if she's still alive and if the kudu haven't finished the garden off, then I'd dress up like her, sit on the back porch and shoot him from. . . . . her rocking chair! dancing
 
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She may STARVE TO DEATH before then. . . .You'd better go now or let some other lucky soul have a shot at him! But if she's still alive and if the kudu haven't finished the garden off, then I'd dress up like her, sit on the back porch and shoot him from. . . . . her rocking chair! dancing


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I would have gone with Baboon Poop!
 
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You do not say where she is located geographically..It could be Klapperdop, or Amarulu and a few hundred other fruits in various stages of ripening or drying.


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