OK Kids, I'm taking you in to see the little white things that come here often.
Sarge69
I would probably do more than wet my my pants!
Come on, I have tried almost the same. While it was exciting and nerve-tingling it was far from pants wetting.
One quick way to go thru a case of Depends
Jan F. Rasmussen wrote:
Come on, I have tried almost the same. While it was exciting and nerve-tingling it was far from pants wetting.
Some of US are more sensitive than OTHERS! :oops:
Aaronphoto wrote:
Jan F. Rasmussen wrote:
Come on, I have tried almost the same. While it was exciting and nerve-tingling it was far from pants wetting.
Some of US are more sensitive than OTHERS! :oops:
Well in my case they did not ACTUALLY touch me, but it was VERY close.
1) We photographing the silverback at a distance of 7-8 m, he was eating and some vegetation was hanging down and partly obscuring his face. The guide tried to remove the offending vegetable matter, but Hirwa (the silverback) took offence. He grabbed the guide by the arm, slammed him in to the ground and took the arm in his mouth and sat down. The guide was in this position for a few minutes (uttering imitations of submissive gorilla sounds all the time). After being released, there were no wounds but some slight depressions on his skin from the teeth and LOTS of gorilla saliva.
2) Later I was 1 m off a trail photographing a female and a baby. I was kneeling. Suddenly two other tourist fall and hit me (one fell on top of me and on glanced me). I thought they had fallen, as there were many treacherous vines on the ground. But actually they had been standing on the trail behind me, when Hirwa decided it was his trail and pushed them out of his way using arm and shoulder.
3) Less dramatic but possibly more dangerous was a episode where a baby again and again came to us much closer than required safety distance (7 m), despite that we tried to back away from it. Hirwa brought it back and gave us some mean looks.
Jan F. Rasmussen wrote:
Aaronphoto wrote:
Jan F. Rasmussen wrote:
Come on, I have tried almost the same. While it was exciting and nerve-tingling it was far from pants wetting.
Some of US are more sensitive than OTHERS! :oops:
Well in my case they did not ACTUALLY touch me, but it was VERY close.
1) We photographing the silverback at a distance of 7-8 m, he was eating and some vegetation was hanging down and partly obscuring his face. The guide tried to remove the offending vegetable matter, but Hirwa (the silverback) took offence. He grabbed the guide by the arm, slammed him in to the ground and took the arm in his mouth and sat down. The guide was in this position for a few minutes (uttering imitations of submissive gorilla sounds all the time). After being released, there were no wounds but some slight depressions on his skin from the teeth and LOTS of gorilla saliva.
2) Later I was 1 m off a trail photographing a female and a baby. I was kneeling. Suddenly two other tourist fall and hit me (one fell on top of me and on glanced me). I thought they had fallen, as there were many treacherous vines on the ground. But actually they had been standing on the trail behind me, when Hirwa decided it was his trail and pushed them out of his way using arm and shoulder.
3) Less dramatic but possibly more dangerous was a episode where a baby again and again came to us much closer than required safety distance (7 m), despite that we tried to back away from it. Hirwa brought it back and gave us some mean looks.
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That's some story. Thanks for that.
Yes very wetting :mrgreen:
This is when you find out what colour adrenaline is! What an amazing experience, wonderful.
MJL
Loc: Wild Rose, Wisconsin
What an incredibly exciting experience he can add to his tales of life! Thanks for sharing this video.
sarge69 wrote:
OK Kids, I'm taking you in to see the little white things that come here often.
Sarge69
Sarge, my husband and I had a similar running commentary running through most of the video!
Those creatures are so like us, but much more majestic. :)
And I suppose that one of them would be shot if a tourist got attacked for doing the wrong move or whatever. What is it about humans that makes them want to touch wild animals and complain when it all goes wrong because of missinterpretaion of body language. When will we be satified to admire from afar
farnsworth52 wrote:
And I suppose that one of them would be shot if a tourist got attacked for doing the wrong move or whatever. What is it about humans that makes them want to touch wild animals and complain when it all goes wrong because of missinterpretaion of body language. When will we be satified to admire from afar
Seems the other way around in this case - school trip for the young!
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