Wednesday 26 October 2022

A tiger a tiger a tiger!?


""Tiger"" (foto from Okonjima Nature Reserve)


We are sitting around the fire at Mundulea Camp. What a pleasure to be in the company of nice fellow guests from UK and Canada who used to live in Africa. So many interesting stories. Our host B tells us a recent story about "the tiger".  His new assistant Z called him from the farm: 

"A tiger a tiger a tiger"

Z gasped for breath as he tried to alert B to the danger he was in. 
"Where are you?"
"In the room with closed door and window!!" panicked Z
"Tell me, what do actually you see?
"I see a tiger" ... "It sits in the bourgainville outside the window" replied Z
"Is it like a big cat with spots?"
"Yes!" shouts Z
"Then it is a leopard, there are no tigers in Africa"
Z thinks he is being chased by the tiger. It´s watching him from the distance. B doubts the story... 

Weeks later

Z calls B in despair.
"Now, the tiger is in the kitchen!"
"What, where - what do you mean?" asks B
"I opened the door to the kitchen, the tiger is sitting in there looking at me!" Z replies
"What did you do then?" asks B
"I closed the door again and ran away!"
Z even more convinced that the tiger is following him.

Days later

Z sleeps in a tent in the camp, B sleeps on a cot outside the tent in the open. 
B wakes up in the middle of the night with a feeling of being watched.
5 meters from him, the leopard sits and looks directly at him!
Slightly uneasy, B lies down again. Next morning the leopard is gone.


Mundulea Camp

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