Those were the famous Ground Squirrels of the Kalahari...mischievous, entertaining, always hungry, and also kind of crazy - especially since they lived so close to humans at Mata-Mata camp and thus food was available at all times. Campers seemed to forget a lot of food items around their tents and our protagonists here knew where to find a few morsels...Nowadays people are more aware of the damage they can cause to their health by feeding them, but in the past all it took was just a few crumbs - or nuts in this case - to have some fun with those cuties...
Those images were taken a few years ago, and things have changed a lot in the meantime - more accommodation was built, more campers, and more vehicles...soon the squirrels realised it was no longer safe to dig a big hole in the middle of all that traffic so they moved away from humans, their "homes" now just metres away from the fence surrounding the camp.
I shall not go on to describe what happened here, those images speak for themselves. I hope my short story sequence sequence brings a smile to your face... and on this note I bid you good night
The Famous Ground Squirrels of the Kalahari
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