The featured image was taken just seconds after the previous post’s.
In #9 you were looking at a dog and duck; they were looking at sheep.
This chapter’s featured image shows the now-sheltered sheep, returning the canine/avian gaze.
All were photographed within the fold/pen to which a Moroccan family’s sheep and goats return, after each day’s grazing.
I think that the duck had become “imprinted”. In this context, at least, it saw itself as a sheepdog!
In truth, even the dog’s non-imaginary herding skills were superfluous.
These sheep (plus a couple of goats) were obviously accustomed to their daily routine…and fully “on board” with spending their nights on the safe side of a wolf-proof barrier.
The local wolves are definitely not jackals, although Canis Lupaster – the African wolf – does have a very jackal-like appearance.
I took the other two photos a few minutes earlier, from outside the fold.
As you can see below, the sheep followed their “owner”, and eagerly anticipated his unlocking of the fold’s door.
Eventually, Pelican Yoga will reveal rather more about Bhalil, which is not far from Fez.
This very likeable hillside town’s culture is very definitely Amazigh (aka “Berber”) rather than Arabic, and its extraordinary history of “cave-dwelling” is still a living one.
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