as i mentioned in the last post, the big five safari animals are the cape buffalo, the lion, the black rhinoceros, the elephant, and the leopard. we saw plenty of elephants.
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| two shots of the same elephant. |
generally, we saw the elephants in singles or pairs, but at one point we came across an entire breeding herd. the light was fairly harsh, so the shot isn’t quite what i’d have liked, but you have to take these things as you find them.
if there were leopards in the ngorongoro crater, we didn’t see any. however, the real draw – in fact, the reason we were in tanzania at all – was the wildebeest. also known as gnus, wildebeest migrate through east africa to follow the rains. over the entire safari, we saw hundreds of thousands of these beasts, although the majority of them were on the serengeti. we got just a taste of them (so to speak) here.
i took many more photos than just these, of course, but one of the next few blog posts will be stupid with photos of wildebeest, so i’ll leave it here for now.
next: even more critters.
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