Crossing or in a Row

Everybody is familiar with zebra crossing - even if it has (kind of?) a different meaning when being in the bush or having to obey road "rules" in town. But then - crossing something or other also has different "connotations", as in crossing equine species.

We all know that a cross between a male donkey & a mare (horse) is known as a mule, whereas a stallion & a female donkey produce a hiny. So what if a zebra (also a member of the equus family) enters the picture? Then a zebra-horse cross is known as a "zorse", & a zebra-donkey cross as a zonkey or zeedonk.

This crossed/mixed breed animal - which in a way also reminds me of what we know the extinct kwagga looked like - is "on display" at a private lodge just outside Joburg.



Since zebra are "part of the equation" today - there's "magic" in a group of zebras lining up in a row at a waterhole - I'm still waiting/hoping to one day be able to snap the "perfect" row of zebras.



Other animals like these springbok joining some zebra at a waterhole - simply wade in but in a disorderly fashion . . .





. . . or these impala too thirsty to "form" a perfect row . . .





. . . but then a day & the photo-oppotunity "arrives" when you get to "snap" the perfect row - not the hoped-for zebra, but this certainly was a magical moment/opportunity "in its own right".



This photo proves that springbok can line-up "nicely" . . .







. . . or waterbuck forming a nice "front" (or is that showing off their backsides?) . . .




. . . or otherwise graceful giraffes looking rather clumsy (& definitely are at their most vulnerable) when drinking - apart from that the 2 drinking giraffes "demonstrate" the 2 different ways in which giraffes (spread their legs when) drinking.