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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I like the little birds that sit on the giraffes (and some other critters). I see more if I'm up very very late and of course I'm on the west coast..

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 8:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Well, at least I just got three zebras! But as soon as I clicked in, one left, the other followed, and the third looked up at them like, "ummm...I havne't finished my drink yet, do we really have to leave now?" He took one last long drink and reluctantly followed as well. Kinda reminded me of me, on the rare occasion I go out to eat. The waiter comes and refills my drink, and soon after everyone wants to leave! I'm forced with letting it go to waste, or guzzling it down as I'm standing up.

Back to the empty watering hole.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 11:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Nice zebra there now.

LOL and then he turned and trotted off.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 10:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Jackpot! A beautiful lion was taking a drink at the water hole!

I watched him for a little while. Then Mom called for me and when I got back here he was gone.

How do you do those screen caps anyway? I can't do the normal "print screen" feature, cause it just captures a blank part where the video is. Something about the player I think that prevents the print screen feature, cause I have the same problem when I try to play a DVD and capture a screen on that.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 10:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Rats!! Missed that.. didn't even have it on. I'm not sure how they do it.. maybe if you join and pay then..

Hmm well I guess you need a prog called Fraps.

http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showpost.php?p=763560&postcount=1

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Some great lion and other pics posted tho

http://forum.wavelit.com/forums/51/10332/ShowThread.aspx



Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I sure hope someone is getting this now.. the lions have a cape buffalo kill and a lioness is eating .. a couple of males just playfully head butted..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 11:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
For those checking later, apparently the lions, some lions, made a kill of a buffalo or some think a wildebeest, but they did it in the dead spot where the cam cannot turn.. so later the humans dragged it into a better spot.

There are two lions and two lionesses

I've seen one lioness feed and then go dring a bunch of water and then she even peed.

They are all panting (they may be doing that thing they do to take in scent)

At this very moment the males are close to the kill and a cam is just watching a lioness. Lots of animal (bird) noise.. they must be letting everyone else know..

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 12:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Watched one lioness nibble a bit on the buffalo/wildebeest. They must not be very hungry right now!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 12:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Yeah the people on their board think they must have eaten while the buffalo was still out of sight.. but they sure don't want anyone ELSE to eat.. they drove off one lioness..

I even got to hear some roars.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 12:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
In fact they are watching from a distance.. no one is right by the kill at the moment.

People on their board are hoping for a rival pride of lions to come, or hyenas..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 12:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
This was posted on the africam forum

I have just spoken to the owner of the Lodge - his name is Dirk - the lions did indeed bring down the buffalo at 4.30 this morning and started feeding on the carcass behind the anthill which is behind the camera. Another pride of lion then came by and the noise you all heard was the pride with the kill defending it and fighting off the intruders. They then dragged the kill about 4 metres closer to the waterhole which has afforded us all these brilliant pictures. There are six lions in this pride. Hope this answers some of your questions!

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 4:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nancy a private message Print Post    
couple of lions near the kill still :-)

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The pride was lying around when I got up.. male has been feeding and the rest sprawled all round the water hole.

Truck full of visitors have been awfully close up and watching, not it is night and they have lights from the truck.

Second male awake, marking territory.

Meanwhile hyena have been spotted skulking about in the background so they want part of this kill.

The lions don't look ready to give up their prize at this point.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
oh and by really close (and in an open vehicle), this is what I mean

kill

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Watched a lion snack for a bit. Then some humans in a truck shined a huge freaking spotlight off in the distance to reveal some hyenas lurking about. They're looking pretty interested.

Camera (and spotlight) panned around, followed another lion.....and zoomed in on the poor guy in a very private moment. And while its not something I would make it a point to go out and see on a safari, I can confidently say that it was the first time in my life I ever saw a lion taking a dump.

Camera (and spotlight) panned around again back to the kill. Camera panned in on spotlight and truck apparently filled with tourists (or maybe they're researchers)....oh boy! Then camera zooms back in on lion/kill, and you see a bunch of camera flashes going off in the background.

Don't like the spotlight. Or the sounds of the truck starting up and stuff in the background, or the whispering of humans. I tuned in to see wild lions, not tourists!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
LOL. You were posting as I was Sea!

I'm not so sure he was marking....I didn't see "spray." I saw something a lot thicker than spray or urine. That's why I thought he was in a private moment!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 11:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Oh I agree. he was doing both with great gusto!

As for the tourists, I suspect that what they pay to stay at the lodge and camp is what makes the cams possible. Idid pay for a six month premium sub figuring every little bit helps, but..

Yes it is strange to suddenly see people

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
LOL.. they are having a party at the lodge.. they showed it briefly in the distance and you can sometimes hear the music. Most of the lions are fat and sleeping though someone is munching, off cam.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 2:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Whoami, you don't need a special program to do screen prints. You need to tweak some setting on one of the players, and that fixes it. I am not on my computer right now. I think I might have saved the instructions and will try to remember when I get back to my computer. I know Bob2112 knows what to tweak, and I am sure he would tell you.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Monday, December 25, 2006 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bob2112 a private message Print Post    
In the older version of RealPlayer there was a box to uncheck to disable overlays. I think that fixed the problem with capturing images using the PrintScreen button.

In RealPlayer 10, it now seems to be a slider to turn off overlays. I tried it on a webcam, but I can't seem to make it work. Maybe it will work for you. Here's what I changed:

Go to Tools->Preferences... and then select the Hardware category.

There is a slider under the Video Card Compatibility section. Mine initially looked liked this:



After sliding it one to the left it now looks like this:



This is what I have changed in the past and is probably what Juju remembers. Hopefully you will have better luck than I did.


Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 1:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Today was interesting.. while it was still dark at the cam, the kill was off the edge but you could hear feeding all night and some scuffles.

Dawn came and the lions were alternately feeding, napping, drinking tons of water.. they were all sprawled all round the water hole and the kill.

And they did quite a number on that carcass (someone posted that Cape Buffalo weigh in between 1400 - 1900 pounds!

They got it down to the head, hide, ribs and bones, though at least one leg was separate.

Vultures were sort of timind but one vulture dragged off the leg and hoof and then a pesky raven or crow (pied.. white and black) came and stole that :-)

Jackals were around too and snacking on crumbs.

Then later one male lion dragged the remains off.. took a long time.. he'd drag it backwards for awhile then rest, then start again and he pulled it way off in some brush. Right now a male and female are on the cam way over in that brush but the carcass cannot even be seen anymore.

A pack of hyena came to the watering hole, too late for much to eat, though they got some scraps and a jackal had a chunk of hide he was working on, but the hyenas stayed lolling around in the water for a long time.

Later some gazelles? the smaller deer with big antlers, came to the pond but were nervous (and should have been, the lions were watching from the brush, but they are so bloated and full they won't be attacking anything for now.. even at 1400 lb of Cape Buffalo, it was mostly 5 lions eating though there was a sixth at times but she didn't stay around. It is opined that she may have cubs stashed somewhere else.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, December 26, 2006 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
OMG!! Vindication!! December 16, remember I said HIPPOS!! ??

Well

Hippos1

Hippos2

Hippos3

And after lazing around all night, the lions may have gone on. The vultures are out in force, presumably carcass picking behind the bushes. Hyena, Jackals have been around in force today, even with Lion nearby. I hear there were cape buffalo too but didn't see them.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 2:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Dang! Hippos! Yay Seamonkey!!!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
RATS... the last two clips are gone, not that they showed anything much different.

Clicked next on his photobucket and love the running zebra, trotting warthog and tortoise ..