| (Originally posted on MySpace) ...during my motorcycle trip in 2000, among others:
- various monkeys, mainly in Mali - 1 elephant (not in a park) in Burkina Faso - a wolf-like animal that was running along with us for a while, in Mauretania - a bright green snake that was crossing the road - flamingoes and pelicans and other birds in Mauretania - a desert fox, very pretty, in Sudan - giraffes in Niger - small white herons of the kind that keep the parasites off the cattle - an ant-eater in Chad (very briefly) - a tiny little cameleon, bright green, in Chad - a very big scorpion without a tail, looks like a spider, inside our mosquito net... the scorpion didn't survive this encounter - a LOT of frogs in a toilet/bathroom in Senegal, which was good because they kept the cockroaches away - wonderful vultures in Chad Lake! |