Video highlights from our first safari camp in Kenya. After departing Tanzania, we spent four nights at the beautiful Angama Mara Lodge which has incredible views over the Maasai Mara and the Great Rift Valley. Game drives in the Mara Triangle brought sightings of giraffes, zebras, lions, cheetahs, warthogs and loads of elephants along with lots of other amazing wildlife.
Zebra with desert date trees, Mara Triangle
Giraffe with oxpecker, Mara Triangle
Giraffes watching a lion pride in the distance, Mara Triangle
Lilac-breasted roller, Mara Triangle
Lilac-breasted roller in flight, Mara Triangle
Lion cub, Mara Triangle
Burrowing wolf spider, Mara Triangle
Mating pair of lions, Mara Triangle
Young cheetah brothers, Mara Triangle
Male waterbuck, Mara Triangle
Oxpeckers on Cape buffalo, Mara Triangle
Cape buffalo with oxpeckers, Mara Triangle
Breakfast stop during game drive, Mara Triangle
Male lions, Mara Triangle
Male lion, Mara Triangle
White-browed coucal, Mara Triangle
Giraffe with morning sky over the Great Rift Valley, Mara Triangle
Hot air balloon at dawn, Mara Triangle
Desert locust, Mara Triangle
Rock hyrax outside our room, Angama Mara Lodge
Stink bug in our room, Angama Mara Lodge
Zebra outside the map room, Angama Mara Lodge
Giraffes Necking
Mara Triangle, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya — September 2023
Male giraffes engage in bouts of necking to establish dominance. What we witnessed here was probably just practice between young males, but more serious bouts can apparently be quite violent.
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Jousting Baby Elephants
Mara Triangle, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya — September 2023
Like many young animals, elephant babies engage in play fighting, both for fun and to begin to sharpen the jousting skills they will need as an adult.
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Cheetah Brothers
Mara Triangle, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya — September 2023
These cheetah brothers had just been driven away by their mother days before so that she could prepare for her next litter. They seem a little lost without her, but they will hopefully soon perfect their hunting skills and live successfully on their own.
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Mating Lions
Mara Triangle, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya — September 2023
A mating pair of lions will separate themselves from the pride and stay together in a kind of “honeymoon” for three or four days. During this time, they will mate about every 20 minutes or so.
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