The human connection comes from eye contact, looking another in the eye and conveying a message, whether it be admiration, love, understanding, or something so simple as an acknowledgement, I see you and I recognize you and I value who you are.

It is uncanny in the wild animal world, in fact sometimes a little bit spooky, how they seem to look you directly in the eye, and you cannot help but wonder if they’re thinking, if not for that Toyota Land Cruiser I’d munch on you too! But they don’t, they’re not remotely aggressive, due to the fact that since 1977 when hunting was outlawed in Kenya, they have never, not once, been threatened by a Land Cruiser.

So we continue to co-exist like the giraffes and warthogs, or maybe like the wildebeests and zebras.