Not sure what kind of monkey this is - they were all over near the Mara River where we ate lunch - they actually snatched some food out of people's hands! Fast little guys.
Hippos and more hippos - some of them are starting to get pink, which I guess is sunburn. They can only stay out of the water for a very short amount of time.
The wildebeest migration - they travel in a straight line, sometimes in groups up to 500,000!
Aren't these incredible creatures? They travel in packs of about 5-10 and are part of the "Big 5", so named for their danger to humans. The animals in the Big 5 - the elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and the leopard - can either trample the human or jump in your car if you make them mad. So we never stayed by them for too long. In fact, on our drive back from the Mara, we passed through some woods that were totally trampled and our guide says, "This was done by elephants." They are not innocent animals, that's for sure.
This is a cheetah - the fastest animal in nature. It walked right by the car - amazing.
One of the HUGE cameras...isn't that insane? And that wasn't even one of the biggest ones.
The wildebeest grave - kind've disgusting. When they cross the river, they all are trying to get across so fast, a lot of them get trampled and drown. It smelled HORRIBLE - even when I plugged my nose, I could feel my gag reflex barely held down. I guess that crocodiles don't like fresh meat because they don't chew - isn't that weird? So they let them rot for three days and then eat them. This migration had just happened two days before, so they weren't quite rotten enough, although they smelled like it.
Not sure what kind of monkey this is - they were all over near the Mara River where we ate lunch - they actually snatched some food out of people's hands! Fast little guys.
Hippos and more hippos - some of them are starting to get pink, which I guess is sunburn. They can only stay out of the water for a very short amount of time.
The wildebeest migration - they travel in a straight line, sometimes in groups up to 500,000!
Aren't these incredible creatures? They travel in packs of about 5-10 and are part of the "Big 5", so named for their danger to humans. The animals in the Big 5 - the elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and the leopard - can either trample the human or jump in your car if you make them mad. So we never stayed by them for too long. In fact, on our drive back from the Mara, we passed through some woods that were totally trampled and our guide says, "This was done by elephants." They are not innocent animals, that's for sure.
This is a cheetah - the fastest animal in nature. It walked right by the car - amazing.
One of the HUGE cameras...isn't that insane? And that wasn't even one of the biggest ones.
The wildebeest grave - kind've disgusting. When they cross the river, they all are trying to get across so fast, a lot of them get trampled and drown. It smelled HORRIBLE - even when I plugged my nose, I could feel my gag reflex barely held down. I guess that crocodiles don't like fresh meat because they don't chew - isn't that weird? So they let them rot for three days and then eat them. This migration had just happened two days before, so they weren't quite rotten enough, although they smelled like it.
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