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The Serengeti

The serengeti is a massive amount of land, you will drive and see open plains, then rocks and dry forest, then dense forest, then oasis and so on... You never know what's around the corner so you must always be prepared.
I was screamed at by a elephant mother for using flash on my camera, we had another elephant charge at us but we were driving to fast, she charged cause we startled her. Cape buffalo are the most skiddish of all the animals I encountered, the cows will run but they always stop and look back at you just to let you know what they're capable of. We saw a bachelor group of males that meant business, they weren't running anywhere. The elephants rule all, they run out every animal, its not even a question. Zebra are by far the most alert and when they run you can feel the power in their hoofs, they are larger than wildabeast by a bit of a margin.

This guy is the Rarest of the Rare, we had to track this guy for a mile until we circled back around and let him walk right past us, and only us. What a Sighting!

Black Rhino

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This HUGE boy dragged his Water buc kill up into the tree, he had fed and was now resting. His head and paws were just massive, WHAT A MALE!

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Full Body

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Horn Bill

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Massive Cape Buffalo herd we saw as we were leaving the serengeti and heading to the Crater

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This guy was part of the huge heard and never took his eyes off of us, check his horns out. He was so captivating

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Big Mamma Showing her uneasy feeling towards us with her calf so close

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No intro Needed, this was my favorite shot of a Hyena, they are so cool, their babies look like little bears.

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This was the leader of the Bachelor Group of Buffalo I was talking about, he never stopped looking at us. He was an absolute monster, I can't imagine how a lion could take him on, only a pride. He was in his prime and confident, he was the king of his domain.

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Now for the King...
This male and female along with another female were breeding and another male and female were off a bit breeding as well until elephant interrupted them and forced them to come closer to us

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Same Guy, he was a big boy. I'd estimate him to be 180kg or so, he wasn't very long or extraordinarily tall but he was thick and had a full belly.

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The largest female, the guy above was with her and one more

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Some more of the pride

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This was the 2nd male who was off breeding with another female until an elephant forced him towards us

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As we sat watching these guys for an hour this big boy showed up!

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As we were leaving to head to the crater, we drove through the serengeti and ran into this monster!
Elephant are right or left handed, you will usually see one tusk more worn than the other because they are dominate in one side or another.

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So as we are leaving we start driving through this Oasis, like I stated the Serengeti is ever changing landscape, there was a pride a lions here and this male was with in a foot of us, probably the largest male I saw but he never stood up, but what I shot I got of him. I have the rest of his pride as well, but not worth posting, they are further off.

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Like I said, it was an Oasis!

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Beautiful Secretary bird

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The very hard to spot, Serval... Our guide was the main reason we spotted these guys a few times.

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Tomorrow I'll do the crater and add any other pictures I missed today. I hope you all have enjoyed so far... Reply