There were in a wood on a roadside giraffes, as the ghosts combined from patches of light of the sun and shadows of foliage. In height about the two-storeyed house, and at once you will not make out. They cost at a track, as the lifted barriers! And, as before a barrier, it is necessary to brake. Giraffes do not pass a track, and as though in a slowed-up way fly. Surprising gait - any fluid and deliquescent fluctuation.
Has passed, having buried in the ground a nose, black-backed jackal: to a floor-fox, a floor-wolf. Red, with a dark saddle on to a back. Black-backed, gold, saddled, a black back - here how many at it names. Perceptible an animal!
Mince wart-hog. The flat muzzle bear cautiously as if a tray with glasses, - spill are afraid. “Glasses” - four cut canines from under lips. All muzzle in tuber and knobs: two tubers under the eyes, two a nose. On eyes the predatory bang, on cheeks shaggy whiskers. A kind desperate. Lives wart-hog in the ground. An earthen wild boar: in a hole sleeps, in a hole of pigs deduces, in a hole it is hidden. On run short legs flash. At a hole will by all means be developed and will squeeze into it back. By itself a hole will stop up. And towards will expose from a hole pineal a muzzle with canines-daggers. Not at each leopard on such the paw will rise…
In the party under acacias elephants. Hunched extinguish as a heap of dark boulders. One passes a track, being mown and swinging a head. Goes easily and silently, as if legs at it rubber. Politely makes way. Also it seems, all understands: very intelligent eye looks at you through “keyhole”!
Wide gleam in a wood, the red, trampled clay. And in the middle - muddy small lake. An animal watering place. But while animal soul. Coast all studded hoofs. The cow traces of giraffes, only twice it is more, shy heart hoofs impala, dents of curve hoofs of a gnu, rough hoofs of buffalo s, horse not heeled hoofs of zebras, traces of the heavy hippopotamus. Elephant’s traces, hoofs a clumsy wild boar wart-hog, the cat’s, soft trace of a lion, jackals.

On will much opens. Here you understand, why animals such. Why the giraffe is similar to a bell tower, and at wart-hog are erased knees. For what to a bird-rhinoceros a beak-horn. Why the hippopotamus on legs- dumpling.
Black fenny coast are trampled by hoofs of buffalo s. Bunches of a green marsh grass stick out. Huge coal bags was stuck in a pool dirty buffalo s. Lay: chew in doze, and a number white herons.
At coast in small lake “hummock” has emerged. On it two protruding eyes natterjack eyes. A hummock with eyes! The hippopotamus it is not visible, from above only eyes, ears yes nostrils. And it sees all, all hears. Easily and conveniently to it in water: the hippopotamus in weightlessness! It is not necessary to hold on legs- dumpling I extinguish in three tons.
Crocodiles do not touch hippopotamuses: very much they thick-skinned! And hippopotamuses of crocodiles cannot suffer. Also manage to have a bite half-and-half: canines at hippopotamuses on three kg! They are especially well visible, when hippopotamuses yawn: such yawning dredges.
And still a dry snag and on it two strange birds - open-billed stork. Beaks at them are not closed densely, always hardly opened - therefore and open-billed stork. Beaks are similar to long nippers for caustic nuts. It and really nippers, only split them bowls of snails. Open-billed stork at all gawk, will not miss the . Beaks-nippers sharp-sightedly peer at their grass green lizard eyes, on call.
Another time above savanna shined the sun. Herds of lungs impala as shoal red grasshoppers, jumped over road. At them dry small heads and the enormous plush ears. And harmonious long necks. And legs in golden stockings with black webs. The most beautiful antelopes of Africa!
Having skipped away aside, the herd has stopped, gauging and looks. Herds of impala-goats protect goats. Horns-lyres only at them. In their horns on run the wind sings it. They pay off with a head for fine horns there where still allow to hunt.

The savanna - the African steppe, in translation with Portuguese means « steppe with trees ». Bushes and trees grow In savanna: bushes - thickets, trees - groves. Acacias stick out as if the umbrellas thrust in the ground, and refer to - umbellate acacias.
In the summer savanna damp and green, in the winter - yellow and dry. Numerous large animals are found. Zebras are grazed together with giraffes and understand each other about a floor of a sight. Will be guarded Giraffes - and zebras will set ears. Giraffes and the general herd like observant towers: eyes so are planted, that all around see also a head it is not necessary to twirl. When the herd of zebras and giraffes moves in thickets, to count it is impossible neither those, nor others. Sides, necks, heads, legs - all mixes up and dispatched on strips and spots.
Up to what zebras are good! Strong, as if hardly pumped up; and holds apart them from surplus, vital forces. Lift up each other, kick, go for a drive by the ground, only hoofs in a dust flash also strips on a skin it is not visible. But a wind as the careful groom, will quickly clear a skin up to shine.
With fractional footfall the herd of zebras from road - and in opinion of flashing before eyes will rush! And suddenly will stand, spring, ears and a mane upright. Bright and appreciable, as if striped columns on abrupt turn of highway.
Having lowered to the ground horse muzzles, dusted in steppe herd of antelopes of a gnu. Up to what a silly animal! With a muzzle of a horse, horns of the bull, a body of an antelope. Goatee and a horse tail. Fantastic small horse. The gnu are full of care and curiosity. Straining a hard neck and throwing up, by bony back, a gnu at a meeting are carried away in steppe. But it is fast, being covered with bushes, come back, putting out from branches, bearded heads.
The gnu with zebras, giraffes and antelopes impala are grazed. And too understand each other. Herds of animals converge, miss, mix up. Here only you understand, for the sake of what people are started up in long trips.