Another Hlabisa Road Trip - Zebra

Zulu Stories and Tradition's
Surnames and Animals
Zebra Ndube
Tour Guid Short Stories

The Zebra could be described as the most sacred animal in Zulu Religion/Culture. Each Surname is represented by a animal and the ranking of the family in the community is determ by the Ranking of the animal on the totem of inport.

Ndube is considered as a very clever animal with healing powers. Well this might just be folklore, but it has some sort of scientific validity. It is believed that Zebra is clever and can out smart Lion by confusing it's eyes. That is actually closer to the truth than one would expect. A Lion's sight is very prone to the strobing effect, because it is so far appart.

This means that the shadow effect one experience when driving past a platend forest has great influence on The way a Lion presieves depth of vission. The Zebra's Comoflage is purely safety in numbers. The more stands together the more difficult it is for a Lion to single out one for an attack. To them the zebras in a heard is just on big mass of confusion. So it is literally safety in numbers.

The importance of a surname of the Ndube Family has faded over the years. They should actually regarded as Royalty.

These two are taking a common stance that has a symbiotic relationship between these two individuals. They standing head to toe the keep flies away from each others faces. Normally they will pair of like this on a very hot day.

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R618 Mtubatuba Hlabisa Corridor Road

Hlabisa
Mtubatuba
R618 Corridor

African Elephants
Big Five

What an exceptional Experience. Excellent three out of five.

Took another drive to Hlabisa today. On the way back we had a good sighting of Buffalo, a exceptional sighting of Rhino and this excellent sighting of an Elephant Family.

Big Five
The Five most Dangerous Animals to hunt in Africa. Well the years when a single shot musket was the weapon of choice.

Buffalo
Lion
Leopard
Elephant
Rhino

True to the legacy the White Rhino is not in the list since they are truly passive animals. The list includes the Black Rhino because of their territorial short tempered behaviour. Hippo, the most dangerous animal in Africa, is not very difficult to hunt. History jotted down that John Dunn shot to his rifle some 23 Hippo in a single day's hunt.

Giraffe. With those lashes how can they be dangerous to hunt, but sought after by trophy hunters and serve an excellent portion of succulent tender meat and obviously looong Biltong.

Well the Road trip was well wort it.

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