Wildebeest placenta. You have probably lived a long, full, and rich life without ever once thinking about wildebeest placenta.  Well, you are thinking about it now.  See what I did there? Now you really are thinking, "Yeah, what IS the deal with wildebeest placenta, Mr. Bloggity Blogger?...

This is part three of a series of blogs about my safari experience.  This entry gives a look at what the average day on safari is like. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Tour Operator:  Gamewatchers Safari Safari Country:  Kenya (I went to Zanzibar too, but not...

This is part two of a series of blogs about my safari experience.  Part 1 is here. Tour Operator:  Gamewatchers Safari Safari Country:  Kenya (I went to Zanzibar too, but not on a safari - that was for relaxing) Disclaimer:  This series of blogs on the safari experience...

Life goal accomplished:  Long have I dreamed of basking in the glory of Africa's megafauna, me basking in their existence and them realizing that I was their long lost monkey-overlord.  Going on a safari delivered on that dream big time!  Well, not the monkey-overlord part,...

You are a cheetah. You are a single mom.  You have had it tough, like all single moms, but you still have some good years left to go. You have an impressive four hungry young mouths to feed not including your own apex predator appetite.  Life...

Animals can be a-holes.  There, I said it!  I've been thinking it for quite a few years and I am glad to finally get it off of my real gorilla chest. If any of you have ever tried to take a quality picture of an...

You are a zebra. Your name is Franco. You are out there in the wild doing your zebra thing living that good-good life:  eating grass, taking steaming nutrient rich dumps, and maybe, if it is a really good day, you get your bump-n-grind on with one...

Yeah, I have eaten larvae before.  So what! One of the coolest things about traveling to wild places to see exotic animals is that you get to meet wild and exotic people.  At some point, someone is going to serve you a food item that...

I am embarrassed to say, but I got way too deep into my long-legged immortal life without ever seeing a wild shark; it weighed on me, man!  My brain started to hatch out plans on how I could go about seeing one without, ya...

Hello! I have, like presumably you, been a nature fan my entire life.  It started when I was wee with dinosaurs, grew to late night shark TV shows, advanced to attaining a BS in Biology, and mushroomed into traveling the world to see amazing animals...