That’s the difference between camping in Africa and camping in North America. Here the camp sites are open and animals can wander through. There they (the people) are fenced in with wires. (Those in the game reserves are. Some 4x4 enthusiasts still rough it out in the bush.)
I remember travelling through Etosha in Namibia. Every time one wants to see the wild on foot, you go into a hide. The entrance is in a parking lot — open area so that one can scan what animals are close by. Then you go through a gate into a barb-mesh tunnel with a gate that you close behind you. This leads for about half a mile to the hide at a water-hole.
Even with the fences around the camps, animals still get in. One night we were having a barbecue in Northern Natal. While roasting the meat I continually scanned the grass on the other side of the fire pit with my powerful light. Good thing! Suddenly two very large eyes lit up in the light. Needless to say, we took our meat and retreated backwards into the hut, while blinding the leopard or hyena with the light.
That night all the other guests in the camp thought that we were crazy, driving, and not walking everywhere!!!
Jim