An Elephant chases me from my camp @4xoverland 

What protection is a car against an elephant if you cannot drive it away? None. To an elephant, the threats are the creatures inside the car, not the car itself. I was acting in a submissive way and the elephant was happy with that. And I was no longer a threat. If I had climbed inside the car, I remain a threat and then if I start the engine, the noise startles the elephant, and again I am a threat. Had there been predators around, I would have done things differently.

yeah!

No. You won't. And you then went on to waste more time writing the comment. Good job man!

The animals in Africa are more scared of you than you are of them. Except perhaps elephant. They're not scared of anything 🤭

@@BubblesTheCat1 I've no doubt the animals in general are as you say, and know that elephants are to be respected from a distance if possible. The predators I'm less inclined to think are afraid rather than they don't recognize us as a prey animal. I'd also prefer to not give them the chance to discover the truth when we are not prepared, and/or alone.

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Not at all

Love that!

No need for a weapon. And no, one cannot carry a weapon in these countries, for which I am very grateful. Imagine all these tourists all carrying guns for no reason at all.

Series will restart on RU-vid next week. Watch all 17 episodes now, in 4K here: vimeo.com/ondemand/africa2024

Few little rodents to worry about here. Although, several years ago I did have a mouse git in and cause trouble. Also in Botswana. Its a bad habit of mine.

the light makes is easier for me to see animals, and less easy for them to see me. Animals depend on surprise when hunting. I remove the element of surprise by lighting the area. I've spent many years living in close proximity to animals.

In the Troopy 😊

I am very familiar with tsetse fly. First time I got bitten was when I was 10.

That would be a kikoi.. a most useful garment from Kenya.... Skirt, towel, tablecloth, pillow, sheet, shawl, cover....

haha. I survived with a story to tell. No point in dying without one.

Roof tents are zero defence with elephant.

That comment is really patronising. How different people perceive this experience. But I was the only one who was there, and the only one being judged by people like yourself. Was it meant to make me feel bad about the experience?

Not trying to make you feel bad. Just came to my mind that this video is so different from the early series you made when you were still living in SA. I really enjoyed the search for the source of the Okavango, your trip to Zambia and your solo crossings of the Kalahari. When I saw that you were back in Africa, I was hoping to get more of the same. This latest series has been a disappointment. Will skip the rest of the series. Won’t bother you again. Cheers, mate.

How is this different to my solo crossing of the Kalahari????? This is the closest Ive ever come to making a series like my old SA TV show.

very good question and simple answer. Africa has dung naturally occurring dung beetles that consume the dung before flies can lay eggs in it. They have tried but failed to breed them in Australia.

Also, I think, it might be because most animals that die in Africa get fairly quickly eaten by predators, raptors, scavengers. Almost everything is eaten. In Australia, when an animal die, it will most often just rot away - ample time for flies to lay eggs. I stand to be corrected.