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Maybe his floppy wet ear was obscuring his vision

I was in Kruger now just as the rains came and left the morning of the 19 Jan 2013 made it out before Croc Bridge closed.
I noticed a few things with the animals 2-3 days prior to the rains.

The elephants seemed to disperse.
There were so many Nile monitors leaving the rivers and dams.
There were hardly any cat sightings on the H4-1 especially closer to Lower Sabie.
And yes, an unusual amount of flies.

Great thread.

Bornfree .

What also puzzles researchers is how certain animals like flamingos know where the rains fell. It was reported that flamingos normally visit a certain pan somewhere in Africa, but only when it has rained. The researchers mentioned that the pan was dry and that there were no flamingos within a radius of 100 miles. The rains eventually came and the very next morning the pan was covered with flamingos. How the flamingos knew that rains have fallen at a certain place is still unknown.

When you see more than one Leopard Tortoise crossing a Kruger road on the same day, rain is not far away...