Yep Desert Diary

Jack was going to a village to get supplies. It was getting dark, and he was on his way back when some kind of large cat pounced on him. It was to dark for Jack to see what kind of cat it was, but it was to small to be a tiger or lion, and to big to be a snow or clouded leopard, so it must have been an indian leopard. While they were fighting, a thunderstorm came up. There was a flash of lightning, and Jack saw that it was a strawberry leopard (extremely rare pinkish leopard color). He grabbed a tree branch and hit the leopard on its head. The leopard fell to the ground, unconscious. Jack quickly tied it up, walked to the camp, brought a truck and put the leopard in a cage. strawberry leopard (bottom) and leopard (top)

 John shook Jack awake. "Jack, I just saw an indian rhino outside of the camp!" Jack tumbled out of his hammock, put his shoes on, grabbed a net and, with John showing him the way, ran to the place where the rhino was. It wasn't there anymore, but they could plainly see the way it went, because it was so large. They found it, threw the net over it and tied the ends of it to large trees. Then they dashed back to camp, got a truck, tied the end of the net that the rhino was in to the truck and brought the rhino to camp where it was put in a cage. Indian Rhino

Jack and John were going on a trip to India to catch animals. Their father had gone to the Galapagos islands to capture animals, so they had to capture animals on their own. A when they arrived, they went to bed in hammocks, as it was nearly nine pm. At about four in the morning Jack woke up and saw a large, white tiger (rare tiger color) lying down in the warm ashes of their fire. Jack slowly got his revolver (large pistol) and shot above the tiger. It jumped up and ran away: strait into an empty chital (deer) cage! Jack quickly jumped out of his hammock and slammed the cage door. John, awakened by the shot, woke up and jumped out of their hammocks. Jack and John drove a truck with a tiger cage in it next to the chital cage and transferred the white tiger into the tiger cage. white tiger

Jack was going for a walk. He walked for about a mile, when he saw a caracal (medium African cat known for being able to jump ten feet high) about 2.5 feet long walking near him. He remembered that a zoo had asked his father to capture one for it. Slowly, to not startle it, Jack took a lasso from his belt and twirled it around his head. Suddenly he threw the noose over the caracals head. Strait away it jumped ten feet high and tried to escape. Jack knew that a caracal has very strong legs that it uses to jump ten feet high and run fifty mph, and that it was stronger than him, so he tied the end of the lasso to a tree branch and ran back to camp. When he told his father and John, they quickly sent a truck with a cage to pick up the caracal. Then Michael (their father) said that they had enough animals for that trip. Besides the hippo, three adult white lions, two white lion cubs and the black zebra, there were some other animals they had caught, such as a python, a buffalo, honey badger...

 Jack and John went to the zebra herd. There's the black zebra, said Jack. "Wonder how we'll catch it?" "I have an idea!" Said John. "Let's dig a pit, five or six feet deep, cover it with some thin branches and get him to step on the branches by luring him with some fresh grass, and then he'll brake the branches and fall into the pit!" They did that, and captured the black zebra.

On Sunday there was a big fire. One of the cars at a friend of dad's car workshop caught on fire and burnt. Luckily, no one was hurt and dad's friend doesn't have to pay for it, as it wasn't his fault, and he can't afford it.        John heard one of their hired men running towards him. He stopped next to him and told him that there was a zebra herd nearby and that he had spotted a black zebra with white legs and neck. John knew at once that it was a rare pseud-melanistic zebra (melanisticism is when there's too much pigment in there body, and melanistic animals appear black: pseud-melanisticism is when some kind of animal has bigger and closer together spots or stripes, making it look like it is black with stripes of a different color, although it's actually the opposite: shadow the black tiger from "The Adventures of the Creature Club", one of the stories that I wrote is pseud-melanistic), and told his father, who still couldn't help them b...

Jack and John tried to capture the white lion, as white lions are so rare that out of the 20,000 lions left there are only about 300 white lions in zoos and 13 known white lions in the wild, but it was to smart to let them catch him. They decided to follow him to the place where his pride lived (lion prides don't live in dens, and have about 15 square miles of hunting territory, but the pride spends most of the day under a tree). When Jack and John did follow the lion, which they named winter, they were surprised to see that the pride was made up of Winter, one ordinary male lion, five ordinary lionesses, (female lions) two white lionesses, four ordinary lion cubs and two white lion cubs! (that's two male lions, seven lionesses and six cubs, or five white lions and ten ordinary ones) Suddenly the lions in the pride all stood up. They had spotted a zebra herd, and suddenly one of the ordinary lionesses jumped on a zebra. The other zebras scattered, and all of the lions but the c...

After their fathers injury, Jack and John had to catch animals by themselves. One day, as they were going for a walk, they heard a roar, and when they looked around they saw a male white lion about fifty meters away from them (white lions are not albino, but they are a rare color mutation of a normal lion similar to albinism). They knew that they should not run, as a lions top speed it 50 mph and the fastest human, U. Bolt's, top speed is only 28 mph, and that they should stare at the lions eye and slowly back of, which they did, until they were out of sight. Then they sprinted back to their camp, where they told their father about what happened. "One thing's for sure", declared Jack, "we're going to try to catch that lion!" white lion