In this gallery you will find photos from a vacation in South Africa 2003 (Funny animals). With your mousepointer over a thumbnail you will get more information. Please click the thumbnail to open the picture in a new window. All images have a size of 950x650 pixel or 80-190KB. Enjoy your holidays!


Funny animals

If there is a common attribute that I can give ostrich, giraffe and penguin, then it is 'funny'. Surely, a giraffe with 4 meters height is an impressive animal, but as soon as I look at the head, the two ears and the little horns, I simply have to smile. And the same applies to the (somewhat stupid) ostrich and the little penguins.

I could observe animals for hours, but these three could never bore me and are therefore shown in this gallery.


1. Ostrich for christmas
A metal one in Ooudtshoorn, the city with the highest ostrich population in the world

2. Fresh
An ostrich child - born only a few hours before - with the prospect of being raised for 14 months, in order to then serve humans with meat, feathers and skin. So sad...

3.-5. Ostrich
What can I say? ROFL

6. Egg
Of course the eggs (14 times bigger than a normal chicken egg) are used too

7./8. Hunger
An ostrich and a giraffe having breakfast

9./10. Giraffe
A giraffe doing a photo shooting and two minutes later with her a few weeks old offspring

11.-16. Penguins
Taken in Boulder (between Cape Town and the Cape of good hope). Aren't they cute?


South Africa - Predators - Victims - Flowers - Nature - People/Markets - Cape Town - Cape/Table mountain - South Africa