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Yes, I would also surmise that there was definitely something tasty that they were both eating.
Interesting observation tho.
BTW Welcome to the forum Gill.

Hello and welcome, gfordyce!

Very strange indeed, from the bushbuck!

Baboons often fool around in the water, sometimes checking the lily leaves etc for tidbits.

From the shadows it looks like it was not the hottest time of day.

I don't think the bushbuck would try to eat underwater vegetation.

The only solution I can come up with is that smaller antelope such as bushbuck and impala often cohabit with baboons whenever possible, as they are the smartest and most effective spotters of predators.

Seeing as this seems to be a subadult bushbuck ewe, I guess when the baboon went in, she went in as well!

More detail!?

Fascinating!

Hi Elsa and Richprins
Thank you so much for your replies and welcomes!
As I am fairly new to this please excuse the fumbles!
The pic was taken at about midday. Remembering that it was middish winter and I was above them at an oblique angle. The animals were definately eating something.... the water levels were particually low! There were also monkeys eating in the water, and if I remember correctly there was another bushbuck feeding too. Do you think they were eating the lilly bulbs?
Gill

can you tell me what these are? They are from the web cams.



I know the pics are bad but.....
thanks

The top pic is a group of wildebeest and the bottom is a very nice capture of a gemsbok, the iconic antelope of Kgalagadi.

thank you arks

Personally I feel they were eating the water grass etc found in water. That grass is very tasty to animals and I have sat at Lake Panic and seen the bushbuck eating the grass. I also know the horses love eating the grass from dams and will often eat the algae from the water as well.

can you tell me what this might be?

ya, I know it is a small pix. It is on the right side by water.

BBJackal ?

BBJs are the most abundant species to visit the waterhole by far! In any evening they come and go like traffic on the Skuk - LS road

ID please on this animal.

Brown hyena ?

Its very light for a Brownie ...looks more like a Spotty but they are uncommon...65% sure its a lioness...wish these webcams were sharper to cut the guess work

Nope! You are more likely to see a streaker on that camera than a brownie. Try the Nossob cam

I want to pick some brains: Last visit to Kruger In January, we heard of a lion kill on the Orpen-Satara tar road. By the time I got there, though, the lions had been driven into the thick bush by masses of cars (so what's new, siggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh). However, the carcass of a buffalo could still be seen next to the road, and on the road itself was a huge pile of faeces, which was so pungent as to be almost overwhelming. I couldn't stay there long because of this odour, but came back later to find the pride deep in the bush on the other side of the road.

I was wondering what could have happened to cause the animal to excrete so much faeces in a huge pile like that on the road. It must have been fleeing, so why the pile all together. All I can think of is that that is where the unfortunate animal was brought down by the hunting lions? Did they then rip the rear apart?

Also, I find it amazing that predators who have such a keen sense of smell can bear to eat with that atrocious odour all around their food!

Anyone have any ideas?