I am posting this for Judy who still has not created herself a login because she says that is what she has me for. I guess she will be a lifetime LURKER.
This is the write-up she did on a little fun she had with Wildman (Danny).
One day, last year on Whodathunkit Ranch, Wildman came in from an afternoon hunt all excited because he saw an elk. "It was so big it filled up the whole window of the blind and when it ran off all I saw was brown and a fuzzy tail!!" An elk....well, I guess that's possible. There's elk on the high fenced property next to us and maybe one escaped but still we were doubting him. " I'll show you" said Wildman. "There's the biggest pile of elk poop over there that I have ever seen. I'll take a picture of it next to my 35mm lens cover just to show you the size."
Oh, come on Danny...that's horse poop!" "Nope..it's elk!" and the argument went on until Danny left Sunday evening. In the end, he admitted to Clent that it was probably a horse or something he saw ("but don't tell Judy") The next day the ranch manager from a ranch down the road showed up wondering if we had seen any colts running around. The horses had gotten out over the weekend and they hadn't been able to find them. Hmmmmm......
Well, nothing was ever mentioned again about the mysterious sighting until our trip to South Africa the next spring. As we're driving down a road on one of the game farms there is a HUGE pile of rhino poop in the road. I mean drive your car around it huge! Judy decides she's going to play a joke on Wildman and stops to take a picture of the pile next to her 500mm lens cover. "I'm going to send this to Danny and tell him hasn't seen a big pile of poop until he's seen this."
On writing the email, Judy decides to carry it a little bit further and tells Danny she saw this pile and bets he can't guess what it's from. Danny's reply was "I'll bite"
It's from an Elknoceros! Judy writes.
I did some research on it and found that the Elknoceros has a distant relative that lives in the states. It's found in a very concentrated area in the hill country of Texas and is called and Elkquine.
Something must have happened to Judy's email because she never heard another word from Wildman. Clent wrote Danny and said "You have to admit. She gotcha!" Upon Judy's return to Whodathunkit that summer, she asked Danny if he had received the email. All she got back was a couple of bad names and Wildman walking off. Yep...got him.
Far be it for Judy to let sleeping dogs lie. While Wildman and Boomer were fortifying the feeders(against the aoudad) at Whodathunkit II she mentioned that even an elknoceros couldn't damage one of these feeders, only to be met with a sidewards glance. Well, it turned out to be true! Just Like the movie says...."Build it and they will come"
This is the write-up she did on a little fun she had with Wildman (Danny).
One day, last year on Whodathunkit Ranch, Wildman came in from an afternoon hunt all excited because he saw an elk. "It was so big it filled up the whole window of the blind and when it ran off all I saw was brown and a fuzzy tail!!" An elk....well, I guess that's possible. There's elk on the high fenced property next to us and maybe one escaped but still we were doubting him. " I'll show you" said Wildman. "There's the biggest pile of elk poop over there that I have ever seen. I'll take a picture of it next to my 35mm lens cover just to show you the size."
Oh, come on Danny...that's horse poop!" "Nope..it's elk!" and the argument went on until Danny left Sunday evening. In the end, he admitted to Clent that it was probably a horse or something he saw ("but don't tell Judy") The next day the ranch manager from a ranch down the road showed up wondering if we had seen any colts running around. The horses had gotten out over the weekend and they hadn't been able to find them. Hmmmmm......
Well, nothing was ever mentioned again about the mysterious sighting until our trip to South Africa the next spring. As we're driving down a road on one of the game farms there is a HUGE pile of rhino poop in the road. I mean drive your car around it huge! Judy decides she's going to play a joke on Wildman and stops to take a picture of the pile next to her 500mm lens cover. "I'm going to send this to Danny and tell him hasn't seen a big pile of poop until he's seen this."
On writing the email, Judy decides to carry it a little bit further and tells Danny she saw this pile and bets he can't guess what it's from. Danny's reply was "I'll bite"
It's from an Elknoceros! Judy writes.
I did some research on it and found that the Elknoceros has a distant relative that lives in the states. It's found in a very concentrated area in the hill country of Texas and is called and Elkquine.
Something must have happened to Judy's email because she never heard another word from Wildman. Clent wrote Danny and said "You have to admit. She gotcha!" Upon Judy's return to Whodathunkit that summer, she asked Danny if he had received the email. All she got back was a couple of bad names and Wildman walking off. Yep...got him.
Far be it for Judy to let sleeping dogs lie. While Wildman and Boomer were fortifying the feeders(against the aoudad) at Whodathunkit II she mentioned that even an elknoceros couldn't damage one of these feeders, only to be met with a sidewards glance. Well, it turned out to be true! Just Like the movie says...."Build it and they will come"
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