Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Northern Tanzania Photos

Large male baboon - very intimidating.

Ngorongoro Crater - largest in the world and full of animals!

Nursing hyena.
A very muddy Cape Buffalo.

Thompson's Gazelle.

We waited quite awhile for this little one to stand up.

Lazy lions, no doubt full of Cape Buffalo.

We saw only a couple Elephants in the crater.
Hyenas picking the ones clean.

Flamingos, of course.

A jackal and an eagle picking at scraps.
Vultures doing the dirty work.

Zane and his Masai friends.
Lots of animated Zebras in the crater.

It was rare to see a Giraffe not standing.

Big mouth.
The mobile phone network in Tanzania is called Zain, so everybody Zane introduced himself to easily knew his name.

2 comments:

  1. What's all the greenish slime in the water buffalo and on the vulture's head?

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  2. Hi Stephanie - very observant. The green slime is what is what was in the buffalo's stomach at the time of its demise. Very smelly, and not in a good way!

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