Mara Mobile Veterinary Unit

Category: Wildlife | Date: Dec 11 2007 | By: admin

Unusually heavy storm came to the Mara. It started raining heavily in the last couple of days, with rain continuing into the early morning hours.

I was visiting the wildlife reserve with Will from Wildlifedirect who is helping Kimojino (Mara Conservancy’s Assistant Warden) start his blog here in the Mara Triangle. We came across very interesting scene after all night storm. Several wildebeests were reported to be struck by lightning. When we arrived at the scene, we found total of 34 wildebeest and 4 zebra dead within half a km! Majority of them were sub-adult animals and most likely were not victim of lightning as it was reported by rangers, but simply due to heavy all night rain. However, some were quite distinctively a lightning case as carcass still had burnt hair smell from it.

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