I went to Lake Nakuru National Park yesterday and saw all manner of interesting beasts.
This is the first animal we saw: a hyena chillin' in some mud...
There were lots of flamingos.
And even more zebras...
We saw around fifteen white rhinos...
...And one black rhino, very far away.
These, the cape buffalo, are very dangerous;
they are one of the few animals that will attack without provocation.
Cooling off in some muck.
We saw two male lions...
...but they just lay there and didn't do anything interesting.
A waterbuck.
Impalas.
One of those crazy lizards I tried to photograph in Mwanza. It's colors change with the temperature, and it was cooler here than in Mwanza so it's colors are not nearly as brilliant.
A young giraffe eating the leaves of an acacia tree.
I can not know how they do it; acacias have 3-4 inch poison thorns,
so if you even get pricked, it hurts for weeks.
There was one giraffe that was much more darkly colored than any of the others.
A baby baboon riding it's mother.
There were a couple baby baboons battling in a tree, it was hilarious...
A lull in the fighting...
A colobus monkey.
Isaac, I'm not sure the ticks and chiggers of Missouri will be very interesting after such wildlife! Maybe we can spray paint some lizards for you.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing. So many animals. And such clear pictures, it's like I'm there.
ReplyDeleteThat's right about the acacia thorns---you don't want to step on one.
The pictures are lovely. I especially like the ones of the flamingoes and the female Cape buffalo and her calf. Spray-painting lizards seems like an interesting idea...we could even use the kind of paint that changes color in the sun!
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