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No, we have not discovered the elephants' graveyard.
It is the edge of the charmingly-named "death pit": a hole in the ground where all the surplus
bits of carcase unused as either food or trophy by the Blaser Safari Lodge end up.
We are hoping that this is the table where the jackals will dine tonight...
So is this where you bring your victims?
Yes, so this is all the leftovers we bring them here.
So everything you do not use from the antelope, you bring them here.
So you just leave them out and they get taken.
No we have got a hole, a big hole back there.
What happens is the hyenas and the vultures and jackals, they go inside and they take
it and pull it to where ever they want to eat it, mostly up here and under that tree
over there.
That has also got some bones underneath it.
Right.
Jackal control for you is like fox control for us.
Yes, exactly.
So shall we go and do some then?
Yes.
Let us do it.
Just like at home, the Fox Pro is a popular choice here in Africa, but clearly we are
scrolling through a different menu.
Karel starts off with a jackal call, but I have a feeling we have arrived here a little
late for any action.
I am not getting the same sort of foxing confidence that I get with Roy back home.
So we call it a night and deploy plan B the following evening.
There are plenty of takers, even though we are weary from a full day's hunting.
Somehow the idea of going foxing, or jackalling, appeals to the nostalgic side of Germany-based
Blaser Brit Darren Hull, and Zeiss's Stefan Buehring just wants to be out hunting.
Just like with the leopard in the laundry we showed you a couple of weeks ago, Marc
is taking us to see something slightly out of the ordinary.
We are heading off to the bottom section of the property, where my maintenance manager
found a dead giraffe.
We are just going to have a look at it to see if there are any jackal activity around
it.
If there is we might just sit down there for may be an hour or two and maybe we will have
a bit of luck with a jackal.
Do you have any idea how the giraffe died.
No, unfortunately not.
We can not see any marks on it.
Obviously we did not find it quick enough.
Part of it was chewed on already.
So it is difficult to say.
Is it bad news when you lose an animal like that?
It is terrible news cause as I only released that giraffe last August and they are all
young animals.
Probably 3 or 4 years old so they are very young.
It is a pity we have lost one and it looks like it is a bull so that is always a pity.
The giraffe blocks the whole track.
If only this was smellevision!
The pictures in this case only tell part of the story.
Definitely looks like a young female, because you can see the tuft of hair on top of the
horn, which the females have.
The bulls have a bald patch on top and that is how you see the difference just by looking
at the heads.
This is a youngster this is two or three years old.
What do you think killed it?
I am not sure to be quite honest.
I really do not know.
It is too late to see if there any marks on its neck, on its backside, on its rump.
A leopard would not really jump on to a giraffe it is just too big.
But anything is possible.
If you look it looks like she fell down and she was kicking.
You can see the grass is flat where you are standing Darren.
Looks like she was doing this with her feet.
How long would you say she has been here?
Probably about 3 or 4 days.
She could have been kicked in the stomach by another giraffe and all of a sudden she
gets internal bleeding.
You know it so difficult to say.
She could, I have been thinking now, she could have been pregnant and she could have had
a miscarriage or something went wrong.
You know, it is so difficult to say.
Unfortunately the carcase doesn't have any signs of scavengers, which makes Marc think
twice about staying here.
One possible theory is that the animals are too wary, with the giraffe looking too intact.
We found a dead zebra.
When we hung the zebra in the tree for a hyena we had to cut the head off because the hyenas
otherwise would not eat the meat, because they know that the zebras can bite them.
If the head was off then the hyenas ate it.
I do not know if this is the case that the jackals think it is just lying here because
the head is still on.
I am not sure.
We head off to glamorous destination number 2 - the death pit again...
You can tell we are getting close.
The vultures and marabou storks give a sense that there is stuff round here that is past
its sell-by date.
This time we get a better look at the death pit.
The smell does take some getting used to.
Stuff rots in Africa a bit faster than it does in the UK.
Stefan is the man with the Blaser rifle tonight, topped off with a perfect foxing/jackaling/coyoteing
or evn dingoing scope, the Zeiss Duralyt.
Marc sets the FoxPro again - and we make ourselves comfortable behind the death pit.
We try and breathe through our mouths as the whiff on the wind keeps us on our toes - but
only for so long.
As we lose the light Darren and Marc try and get a different type of wind blowing when
they change the call to lion, but their tittering gives them away.
No jackal.
Next time Roy is coming with us to show Namibia a few foxy tricks.