"Drought on the West African plains can make a typically agressive animal an even greater threat. At dawn one morning, these Cape buffalo suddenly thundered out of the sun and into the path of my rover. It seems I'd made the error of being between them and their watering hole and they had no intention of halting for me. Now, you don't want to take chances around Cape buffalo; even when one is weak and wounded, it's been known to run off a bit, take a wide circle and then come out of an ambush to charge you. So I threw my rover in reverse and backed up as if my life depended on it - which it did."
