{"id":1280,"date":"2019-04-24T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2020-01-17T20:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T19:41:57","slug":"its-all-about-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"It\u2018s all about the game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><b>Hello, Bonjour and Salibonani from Cawston Wildlife Reserve<\/b>, Northern Matabeleland where I stay for about 2,5 months and help with the horses. Every morning we start working at 6 am, I am however always a bit late as I can\u2019t get up on time, it is just too early. It really gets me sleepy and tired to wake up so early every single day. There is no weekend as the animals are hungry, need exercise or might get ill every day. Definitely harder than I thought at the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/C1AD9504-E998-4829-9F52-6211492AFC9B-e1556127637364-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1294\" class=\"wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/C1AD9504-E998-4829-9F52-6211492AFC9B-e1556127637364-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/C1AD9504-E998-4829-9F52-6211492AFC9B-e1556127637364-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Horses waiting for their food<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5DBCEF47-DC8E-435F-A113-8682F1BB2FDD-e1556127800581-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1295\" class=\"wp-image-1295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5DBCEF47-DC8E-435F-A113-8682F1BB2FDD-e1556127800581-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/5DBCEF47-DC8E-435F-A113-8682F1BB2FDD-e1556127800581-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Donha and Zambezi ready for breakfast <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>For the first time<\/b>, I lunged a rescued horse, that can not yet been ridden, in our re-opened lunging arena that we had fixed some days ago. The horse\u2018s name is Zhovhe and he was doing really well, we had lots of fun together. Maybe we will get to the point that he actually can be ridden by June. We will see what happens once his injured back leg has recovered from a very deep cut.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>But I am not only working with the horses here<\/b>, I also help preparing the food for the ostriches on the reserve, which contains sorghum, maize and millet. We mix about half of a ton for 8 ostriches that should last a couple of weeks. Feeding the ostriches is a special task and I am not yet brave enough to do that. These huge animals get really crazy, so the grooms who feed them, take a long whip to scare them away as an ostrich attack could end deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/42D72730-F2A5-4220-9125-86BE55BA4EA4-e1556127948146-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1296\" class=\"wp-image-1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/42D72730-F2A5-4220-9125-86BE55BA4EA4-e1556127948146-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/42D72730-F2A5-4220-9125-86BE55BA4EA4-e1556127948146-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Mixing the ostrich\u2019s food<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/88188EB1-95FA-44F6-BF51-8C20EA1B5431-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1297\" class=\"wp-image-1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/88188EB1-95FA-44F6-BF51-8C20EA1B5431-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/88188EB1-95FA-44F6-BF51-8C20EA1B5431-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/88188EB1-95FA-44F6-BF51-8C20EA1B5431-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">In the ostrich paddock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>I also go on game drives<\/b> through the reserve to look after the game or injured donkeys. During my first game drive,&nbsp;I have finally seen the wild sables antelope&nbsp;for the first time. Magnificent animals with long horns standing in front of the sun setting down! Another time I went with the car to look after the free roaming donkeys, which turned into a game drive as well as I saw a herd of wildebeests just next to a herd of zebras that were really close to 9 giraffes enjoying their afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F5620FDB-DF28-4D43-9346-989DB2291D3F-e1556129453393-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1303\" class=\"wp-image-1303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F5620FDB-DF28-4D43-9346-989DB2291D3F-e1556129453393-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F5620FDB-DF28-4D43-9346-989DB2291D3F-e1556129453393-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F5620FDB-DF28-4D43-9346-989DB2291D3F-e1556129453393-768x1152.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Giraffes in the afternoon sun<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>During my lunchtime I enjoy to hang out at the deck<\/b> and watch the waterhole action going on. There is always a party one of a kind, kudus or giraffes enjoying the water, monkeys playing around, warthogs rolling in the mud or bushbucks just strolling the green plain. I have even seen some very shy impalas coming for a quick drink as well as an old, limping sable antelope &#8211; beautiful animal! During the evening a fire is set up and I enjoy the marvelous sunset from this fabulous veranda, where bushbabies come to join me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-11 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F57DA271-05F8-41E6-83B3-4AC7BA3C4ABF-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1299\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F57DA271-05F8-41E6-83B3-4AC7BA3C4ABF-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F57DA271-05F8-41E6-83B3-4AC7BA3C4ABF-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F57DA271-05F8-41E6-83B3-4AC7BA3C4ABF-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Old female sable antelope <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-13 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55B0240F-F41F-479D-A3B0-714E5B269123-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1300\" class=\"wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55B0240F-F41F-479D-A3B0-714E5B269123-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55B0240F-F41F-479D-A3B0-714E5B269123-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55B0240F-F41F-479D-A3B0-714E5B269123-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Impalas at the waterhole <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-15 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/60A7238A-E773-4DC5-8C80-C87D4D7C14EE-e1556128937580-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1301\" class=\"wp-image-1301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/60A7238A-E773-4DC5-8C80-C87D4D7C14EE-e1556128937580-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/60A7238A-E773-4DC5-8C80-C87D4D7C14EE-e1556128937580-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/60A7238A-E773-4DC5-8C80-C87D4D7C14EE-e1556128937580-768x1152.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Warthogs doing what they love the most<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-17 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F7C5436B-2BDF-4ED4-A7B9-B57F079F3300-e1556128635507-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1298\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F7C5436B-2BDF-4ED4-A7B9-B57F079F3300-e1556128635507-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/F7C5436B-2BDF-4ED4-A7B9-B57F079F3300-e1556128635507-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Bonfire at sunset time<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>On the reserve, there is a dairy as well as a butchery<\/b> and I saw for the very first time a zebra that was being skinned after it got shot on the game reserve. The skinning process takes about an hour, done by 2 or 3 people. Almost every part of the animal is used, the meat to feed on, the skin to serve as a rug  and the parts being left over are fed to the vultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-19 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FBEB6337-4231-40B1-BAAA-DC131E498B39-e1556129218726-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1302\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FBEB6337-4231-40B1-BAAA-DC131E498B39-e1556129218726-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FBEB6337-4231-40B1-BAAA-DC131E498B39-e1556129218726-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Zebra being skinned after being shot on the reserve <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>My new lessons learned<\/b>&nbsp;while helping at Cawston Wildlife Reserve:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Sleeping&nbsp;<a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/12\">until 7 am<\/a>&nbsp;is heaven &#8211; getting up every single day&nbsp;<a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/13\">at 5.30 am<\/a>&nbsp;is really getting hard.<\/li><li>When not vegetarian, one needs to know where the meat comes from &#8211; seeing meat being processed, makes it more precious and understandable why this needs to be done in a proper way.<\/li><li>Avoid any sound when enjoying to watch animals drinking at a waterhole &#8211; every little click can scare them away easily.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheers to wandering the world<\/strong>&nbsp;and the wonders of our lives, hope to see you see you soon again \u2013 bye bye, salut and lisale kuhle \u221e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Bonjour and Salibonani from Cawston Wildlife Reserve, Northern Matabeleland where I stay for about 2,5 months and help with the horses. Every morning we start working at 6 am, I am however always a bit late as I can\u2019t get up on time, it is just too early. It really gets me sleepy and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=1280\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eIt\u2018s all about the game\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[7,20,8,5],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}