alguns rinocerontes, 5 elefantes, e agora tres bufalos. Infelizmente, terminaria por ai, porque nao tivemos a sorte de ver um leopardo em toda a viagem. Uma coisa podemos dizer com certeza: eles tem faces assustadoras! Vejam a olhada que ele nos deu!Estavamos sempre procurando situacoes interessantes de um ponto de vista comportamental. Por esta razao, sempre que podiamos ficavamos 20, 30 min. observando os mesmos animais. Nos fizemos isso com os bufalos e conseguimos admirar uma sessao inteira de coceira contra os arbustos. O bufalo parecia estar gostando. E compreensivel: e sempre bom livrar-se de alguns parasitas.Finalmente, outra piada interna da viagem. Decidimos construir um calendario de bundinhas animais. Esta e uma boa imagem para... digamos... Fevereiro.Na decima foto um dos bufalos com um Drongo-de-cauda-forcada acima dele.Resta ainda disponibilizar uma informacao chave. Bufalos Africanos nao estao ameacados, de acordo com a Lista Vermelha da IUCN, mas suas populacoes estao em declinio.StillJanuary 5th 2011, second full day in Kruger, going from Pretoriuskop to Skukuza by theNapi Road.S11, the Napi Loop, is just a short detour fromNapi Road, but it is great to leave the tar for a while to follow a gravelroad. There we saw just 2 CapeGlossy Starlings, 1 Cape Turtle-Dove and1 Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis). The great thing was to see the surprisingoutcrop of Napi Boulders, with the two rocks on top. I asked Haroldo Sa about it and he told me that is probably the result of erosion. Iread owls can be seen there at dusk, but we were still far from that time whenwe passed by. There is a plaque there as a memorial to Justice J. F. Ludorf, formerParks Board Chairman, who died in 1978. The first two pictures are of the NapiBoulders. I like very much the picture of the two suspended rocks with the birdflying in between.Then we came back to Napi Road, onour way to Transport Dam. Up to the entrance to the gravel road leading to thedam, we saw more 3 Cape Glossy Starling, 1 Golden-Breasted Bunting (Emberiza flaviventris), 2 Magpie(African Longtailed) Shrikes (Corvinella melanoleuca),2 African Buffalos, 1 Fork-tailed Drongo, 1 Leopard Tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis), and3 female Waterbucks (Kobus ellipsiprymnus).Inthe third picture, we can see the Golden-Breasted Bunting in full singing. Thisbird has a stable population, being classified as Least Concern in the IUCN RedList. However, it is regularly captured illegally for animal traffic.In the fourth picture,half hidden in the foliage, our first Magpie Shrike, which I think it is afascinating bird, which we would still encounter many times in our trip.Although also Least Concern in the Red List, the population trend shows adecline. There are three separate populations of this bird in Africa, one inKenya and Tanzania, another in Malawi and northern Mozambique, and, finally,the largest one from Angola and Zambia to southern Africa. It can be found bothin the wild and in suburban gardens and town parks. It is a versatileinsectivore, with a variety of foraging techniques. Maybe the one we saw wasusing one of the techniques, to perch in a prominent position, searching for afood item and then diving to catch