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Great photos at Longleat and well worth the visit! I especially like this one of the lemurs! Seem to want to get to know each other perhaps!
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Love the lemur piles! And that was a lot of giraffes!
I had heard a story about lions being killed in Europe. Not sure why I thought it was in a different country?
Catching up again.... Nice filling breakfast for you both!
A safari in the UK. Very cool! The eyes of the lemurs are just gorgeous.
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Sunday 11 May – part three: I am not having you regurgitate pellets at me!
As you can see, we were now out on the African savannah, with some familiar faces that I’ve become very used to at both Animal Kingdom and Animal Kingdom Lodge.
The next section was the monkey drive-through, which we opted out of. There was no way I was having those critters mess with my lovely car! We went on a safari with my parents a number of years ago at Knowsley, near where they live, and we still have very fond memories of the happy half hour or so we spent in our car in the monkey drive-through overlook they have there, watching the monkeys destroy various cars. Sadly, there was no overlook today, so we missed that entertainment…
The next creature we found was this guy, who seemed to be patrolling the perimeter of his paddock…
The first animals we saw were the Ankole cattle, including some gorgeous calves!
Then came these guys…
I have to be honest, I found it a bit freaky for them to be that close to the car, and I really didn’t like it. This was the only point where the CD didn’t do its job properly, as we only got to the bit about the cars being no threat to the rhinos and them not perceiving us as a threat until after I’d said to Mark I wanted to move away from them. There was also a guy in a tractor nearby, which had a battering ram fitted to the front of it, and Mark told me if there was any sign of trouble, that would be straight out.
Then we moved on to find these motheaten carpets…. I’m sorry, but that’s what they looked like. They are really not my favourite creatures at all and even though the signs said you could keep your windows open, I wasn’t going to risk having one spit at me!
Now these guys are much more my sort of thing…
We had a camel crossing moment here…
… followed by an ostrich crossing moment!
The next area we went into was the deer enclosure, and here you can buy food for them, but here the CD did get the information I needed in time, and there was no way I was buying any after I listened to that. They said that the deer may stick their whole heads inside your car, which we then watched them do with other cars, and may even regurgitate some of the pellets back at you. Nice!
The problem was we then hit a deer traffic jam, as they all surrounded the two cars in front of us that were feeding them…
One came to investigate us, but we kept our windows resolutely up. Instead he came up to my window, and started to lick that and the wing mirror. Nice… for that – not!
I can see you… One slightly evil looking deer…
Further on, one of the cars stopped, and instantly they were surrounded by deer again, as they had their windows open. By now though, they’d run out of food, so the deer weren’t too impressed by this state of affairs. They were all over the road again, and Mark had real fun and games trying to get past them without running any of them over…
Next: how amazing to watch him behaving this naturally!
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Great pictures from the safari drive. I would have been a little freaked out by how close those Rhinos were. I would not have fed the deers either! Hope you are able to get past all of them!
Wow!! I've seen the buffalo on the streets of Yellowstone, but this is crazy! Very unique, but crazy!!
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Great animal shots. One of the things that I think makes the safari at WDW a stand-out is that most other safari parks make no attempt with the landscaping to simulate the animals' native habitats. The perimeters of the various habitats are usually visible and they pen together animals that would not be found in the same places. Of course, there's not too much Longleat could do about the beautiful green of the English countryside, but the environment is much more zoo-like than WDW, which, as we know, is Nahtazu!
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I think the Rhino photos are awesome, but I think I would have keep moving too!!! If the monkeys get into your car how do you get them out? No thank you I would have to pass on that one! The photos of the Deer so close to the vehicles are too funny, my DH who is a season deer hunter would have a fit over that!!
Can not believe how close those deer get! That's crazy! I'd be so nervous, as most of the car accidents close to home were deer-related and I had been in two mysefl!
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I especially like this one of the lemurs! 
Seem to want to get to know each other perhaps! 
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I do hate to hear that Longleat would kill lions. That is so sad. 
Sadly, there was no overlook today, so we missed that entertainment… 
for that – not! 
By now though, they’d run out of food, so the deer weren’t too impressed by this state of affairs. They were all over the road again, and Mark had real fun and games trying to get past them without running any of them over… 
If the monkeys get into your car how do you get them out? No thank you I would have to pass on that one!
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