Ngorongoro - Death

'There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally
increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed the earth would soon be
covered by the progeny of a single pair.' - Charles Darwin
 
Long ago, this
wildebeest (?) roamed
the earth, wild and free

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Hmm...look at all those
vultures. Something
must be dead!
Let us move in closer

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Oh ya, the vulture is
sitting atop a dead
something...


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Ah, I see. Some poor
stupid water buffalo
crossed through some
deep mud; too deep,
apparently

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The vulture is about to
land to get some more
chow!

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MMM, mmmm.
Yummy dead carcass!


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The warm afternoon
sun decays his bones,
as the meat has long
since been eaten away


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