When you live in the desert, you gotta get to a watering hole sooner or later. The downside is you might get eatten on the way. So what do you do? You invite your buddies along for a happy hour.
This photo was taken at Etosha National Park in Namibia. Etosha is a lot like the Mohave desert, but with interesting animals in it. It's a dry flat plain that rains most of the winter but is completely dry in the summer. If you visit Etosha in their winter, you probably won't see many animals because they can get water from anywhere at any time. In the summer, they have to come to the watering holes. During our safari we saw this herd of giraffes heading towards the water so we decided to stay put. They all walked up and then one by one they spread their front legs so that they can lean down and drink.
There is always one that will not drink with the rest so that he can be on the look out for those pesky meat-eating animals.
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