Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard puppet animals along with their puppeteers dressed in black. Once on the water, the animals — a gorilla, a leopard, an elephant, a wildebeest, a giraff and a donkey — all come alive. It is Saturday, the second day of “ The Herds” theatrical tour stop in Nigeria on a journey 20,000 kilometers (12,427 miles) from Africa's Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle with puppet animals.