Serengeti — There and Back Again

Giraffe comes from Arabic and means "fast walker". On the drive from Ngorongoro to the Serengeti, they can be seen roaming the horizon, walking from acacia tree to acacia tree.

This is the Nduto lion pride. They were featured in "Nature's Great Events - The Great Migration": a must-see.

The famous, and prevalent, acacia tree.

We drove out into the short grass and away from water to stop for lunch. That way, we could see what was coming.

Lions like to hang out under the tress near watering holes. This fact is not lost on the zebra. Aware of the predators' close proximity, once their done drinking, they rush out of the water, and sometimes it spokes the other zebra into an all out panic. Then the dust settles, and they return to the waterhole, until the next false alarm.

This time, the wildebeast get too close.

A lioness goes in for the kill and a stampede starts.

The mud slowed one of the wildebeast just long enogh for the lion to catch it.

Finishing off the kill, the lion suffocates its victim.

A leopard is stuck in the tree. A bull cap buffalo grazes below, unaware of the cat. With heavy horns and a big body, the leapord knows not to disturb the buffalo.

The beginnings of the Great Migration.

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Elephants are the real kings out here. A mother decided that her and her calf should have the shade, after spending the morning to in the sunburnt grasses, and that the lions already there were no longer welcome.

Just trying to get out of the sun.

Storm cloulds roll across the Serengeti.

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