For a long time, I’ve hunted mostly with a camera instead of a gun. In between classes in Texas, the Evil Princess and I visited the Fossil Rim animal park.
What kind of rim was that name? Well, heck, if they’re gonna name the park after me, I pretty much have to go there.
For a long time, I’ve hunted mostly with a camera instead of a gun. In between classes in Texas, the Evil Princess and I visited the Fossil Rim animal park.
What kind of rim was that name? Well, heck, if they’re gonna name the park after me, I pretty much have to go there.
The critters at Fossil Rim might block traffic and swarm your car. Sort of like Antifas, only nicer and more harmless.
This ostrich was not emu-sed, and in fact was rather peckish.
With apologies to Ogden Nash, there’s nothing prepoceros about this rhinoceros.
Is it perspective or is that rhino fence leaning outward? Probably makes a good scratching post.
Rhino trivia: they (presumably males and based on a very small sample) seem to have an ability to aim their urine streams. They have impressive range and apparently a poor opinion of humans.
BTW, you seem to have a double tap in the entry.
This post brings back some really good memories, Mas. When our two boys were much younger (early elementary school age), we took a trip to see my parents in Dallas and then made a bit of a road trip from there down to San Antonio. We stopped by Fossil Rim, and probably could have taken very similar photos to yours, including the idiot ostriches. The descriptor “bird brained” came to mind. The rental car we had was sunroof equipped, and it was cool to feed the giraffe through the roof – although one son exclaimed, “He slimed me!” due to the saliva left behind after he used his tongue to extract the alfalfa pellets from our son’s hand. After the tour, we ate lunch at the park’s restaurant, which at that time of year was a magnet for migrating hummingbirds – there were dozens of them in full air to air mode vying for a place at the feeders around the deck.
We also stopped by the Inner Space Caverns, which were discovered during construction of an I-35 overpass when the bit being used to drill a support footing fell off the shaft – they relocated the overpass!
Another nature stop was at the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin to watch the million or so bats exit from under the bridge at sunset. That’s probably the only bridge in Austin not occupied by the homeless.
Thanks for dredging up these great memories!
Very enjoyable. Thanks
That #779 looks friendly. Unlike Mr. Bull #203 at your range who wanted to attack my Suburban.
Punny post. I enjoyed it.
If called by a panther, don’t anther.
–Ogden Nash
I note they don’t let the rhino play with the motor vehicles.
Actually, you can feed the cheetahs, unless you can run three miles faster than 70 MPH. Which brings up the question, what is the Tueller distance if you meet a cheetah?
twenty one hundred yards would seem a suitable distance.
larryarnold, I get a mere 154 feet in 1.5 seconds if the cheetah is moving at you at 70 mph. One question is: do you want to wait to press trigger until the animal is 21 feet away, which gives you about 2 tenths of a second before you meetah the cheetah? Wait until I try this on safari and I will get back to you. Maybe. On second thought, this might be a better test for TN_Man and his .404 Jeffrey.
A cheetah is a lightly-built animal designed for speed. Rather like a greyhound. As a result, you would not need an elephant gun in order to kill one.
In the event that a cheetah actually tried to charge me, which would be unlikely since (unlike lions or leopards) they are not known as maneaters, I would select a semi-automatic 12 GA. shotgun loaded with buckshot as my ideal defensive firearm. It would offer the best chance for hitting a fast moving animal, like a cheetah, at close range.
A single shot elephant rifle, like my Ruger No. 1 in .400 Jeffery, would be about the last weapon I would select for this purpose! 🙂
You’re not a fossil Mas.
Vintage perhaps.
Looks like you had just left the class I was in. That’s great, been to Fossil Rim many times. It’s funny (and alarming) with a sunroof and a giraffe shoves his giant head inside and starts poking around.
Reminds me of a trip through a game farm/zoo in Sequim, WA where bears and buffalo would wander up to the car and check stuff out. It’s pretty humbling indeed to have one of the latter come up and realize its eye is almost as big as the car windows!
Anyone notice the dark SUV with the little kid leaning out looking at the giraffe doesn’t appear to have a rear license plate? Definitely clean your tires before going home from this place.
Tom606,
I think I see numbers behind either a tinted plate cover, or more likely, the photo editor blurred the plate for security reasons.
Probably the latter, as the SUV driver may be in the porn business and visited the park to proposition that giraffe to star in a remake of Deep Throat 🙂
I suspect the animals at that park smell better than pantifa.
Fossil,
Sounds like you had a fun time. : )
I see nothing wrong with fulfilling a lifetime ambition to be licked by a giraffe. A really nice experience and a fun one.
If ostriches are like their cousins, emu, the beak isn’t the dangerous part. The damage comes from being trashed by their velociraptor-like feet.
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