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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) which is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. Close-up of a White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) which is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. Close-up of a White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) which is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. Close-up of a White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) which is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Namibia,Damaraland. The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the few remaining megafauna species.
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Two white rhinos graze in the Lake Nakuru National Park under a threatening sky. A red-billed oxpecker clings to the neck of one of the rhinos.White rhinos are almost double the weight of black rhinos and are more docile. They are grazers rather than browsers so they do not compete for food with black rhinos.
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A black rhino with a fine horn crosses a forest glade in the Aberdare National Park. .
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Two black rhinos on the open plains at Amboseli. Poaching of this severely endangered species led to its extermination in this region in the late 1980's.Rhinos have very poor eyesight and are prone to charge at the slightest noise or disturbance. .
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A black rhino and calf in the Salient of the Aberdare National Park.A mother normally will drive away her offspring before a new birth. The interval between births is between two and five years. .
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A black rhino and calf in the Salient of the Aberdare National Park. Their skin colour is the result of the mud-wallows they frequent in the bright red soil of the area.Rhino offspring suckle for up to a year and only begin to take water after 4 to 5 months.
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A black rhino in the Salient of the Aberdare National Park. Its skin colour is the result of the mud-wallows it frequents in the bright red soil of the area.A red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythorhynchus) or 'tick bird' perches on the animal's back. As its name implies,it feeds on ticks and blood-sucking flies while keeping wounds on the host animal open.
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Namibia,Damaraland. An adult Blesbok (Damaliscus dorcas phillipsi) on grassland savannah looks into the camera.
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Kenya, Samburu National Reserve. An oryx (Oryx beisa) in the Samburu National Reserve, Northern Kenya.
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An oryx beisa in arid thorn scrub country, which is typical of northern Kenya.The distinctive markings and long straight horns of these fine antelopes set them apart from other animals of the northern plains.They inhabit arid areas, feeding on grass and browse.Their ability to stay without water is greater than that of the camel.Unusually, female horns are longer than those of males.
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Kenya, Laikipia, Lewa Downs. One of the black rhino for which Lewa Downs is famous.
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Cattle Egrets often follow close to white rhinos and other wild animals as they graze the vegetation of open plains.
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A black rhino mother and offspring are dwarfed by their surroundings in the world famous Ngorongoro Crater. The craters 102 square mile floor is spectacular for wildlife.
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A black rhino mother and offspring are dwarfed by their surroundings in the world famous Ngorongoro Crater. The craters 102 square mile floor is spectacular for wildlife.
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A lone black rhino is dwarfed by its surroundings in the world famous Ngorongoro Crater. The craters 102 square mile floor is spectacular for wildlife.
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A male Red Lechwe runs through shallow water on the edge of the Okavango Swamp in the Moremi Wildlife Reserve.These water loving antelopes have splayed hooves, which are ideal for bounding through water and mud.They have shaggy chesnut red coats and fine lyre shaped horns.
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A magnificent Greater Kudu characterised by the side stripes on its grey-brown coat and double spiralled corkscrew horns, blends into its surroundings in a woodland area of the Moremi Wildlife Reserve.
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A young white rhino follows its mother across open grassland. Photo taken in Eastern Cape nature reserve, Republic of South A1frica.
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Watching White rhino from the safety of a game-viewing vehicle on a game drive at Kwandwe private game reserve.
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Grant's gazelles on the mud flats of Lake Ndutu,a seasonal lake that borders the Serengeti National Park.This species is found throughout the Eastern Branch of the Great Rift Valley system.
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Namibia,Erongo Region,Omaruru. Head and shoulders of female Kudu antelope (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) viewed in evening light
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Namibia,Erongo Region,Omaruru. Head and shoulders of female Kudu antelope (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) viewed in evening light
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Namibia,Erongo Region,Omaruru. Head and shoulders of female Kudu antelope (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) viewed in evening light
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Namibia,Damaraland,Erongo Region. A young boy watches a heard of White Rhinos grazing on the savannah through a pair of binoculars
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Kenya, Samburu District. A young male dik dik, foraging in the undergrowth, in Samburu District.
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Towards mid-day, white rhinos gather around the shade of an acacia tree to slumber.
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A male white rhino with fine horns looks towards a grassland pipit as it strides across an open plain.
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White rhinos in Solio Game Ranch with the Aberdare Mountains in the background.
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A white headed vulture flies in to join other vultures in demolishing the remains of a kill on plains teeming with wildlife near the boundary of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area near Ndutu and the Serengeti National Park.
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Common ostriches run across open plains near the boundary of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Serengeti National Park.Ngorongoro and Serengeti are two contiguous protected areas, which support the greatest concentrations of wildlife left on earth today
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A fine bull elephant feeds along the rim of the world famous Ngorongoro Crater.The craters 102 square mile floor and the surrounding highlands are spectacular for wildlife.
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Two dikdiks in the Samburu National Reserve of Northern Kenya.They are territorial and live in monogamous pairs. Only males have small horns.Well adapted to semi arid lands, they are completely independent of water, obtaining all the moisture they need from their food.
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A male gerenuk feeding in the Samburu National Reserve of Northern Kenya.Strictly browsers, gerenuk can often been seen feeding on branches six feet high by standing on their wedge shaped hooves, supported by their strong hind legs.Well adapted to semi arid lands, they can withstand waterless conditions with ease.
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A herd of oryx in the Samburu National Reserve of Northern Kenya.The distinctive markings and long straight horns of these fine antelopes set them apart from other animals of the northern plains.They inhabit arid areas, feeding on grass and browse.
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Elephants approach the Chobe River in the late afternoon.Elephants can go several days without water but drink and bathe daily by choice.In the dry season when all the seasonal waterholes and pans have dried, thousands of wild animals converge on the Chobe River, the boundary between Botswana and Namibia.
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A large herd of elephants drink at the Chobe River.Elephants can go several days without water but drink and bathe daily by choice.In the dry season when all the seasonal waterholes and pans have dried, thousands of wild animals converge on the Chobe River, the boundary between Botswana and Namibia.
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Kenya. A black rhino runs across the Masai Mara National Reserve. Contrary to popular belief, rhinos can run very quickly.
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Kenya. A black rhino passes curious wildebeest on the plains in Masai Mara National Reserve.
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A black (hooked-lipped) rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), South Africa
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Towards mid-day, white rhinos gather around the shade of an acacia tree to slumber.
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Towards mid-day, white rhinos gather around the shade of an acacia tree to slumber.
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Kenya,Nakuru,Nakuru National Park. A white rhino grazes in Nakuru National Park with cattle egrets in attendance.
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A magnificent Sable antelope bull with females and young in the Shimba Hills National Park. Sable are arguably the most handsome of all Africa's antelopes.
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A Greater Kudu bull runs along Lake Bogoria's muddy shoreline in late afternoon.
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An elephant matriarch keeps a careful watch over her baby in the Samburu National Game Reserve. The gestation period of elephants is twenty-two months with an interval between calves of four to nine years.
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A bull elephant in Amboseli National Park. Elephants consume the equivalent of about 5% of their body weight (i.e. up to 300kg) in twenty-four hours.
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A pack of dwarf mongooses on a termite mound,which serves as their den.The dwarf mongoose is the smallest African carnivore and lives in packs of up to twenty individuals with a dominant breeding pair in each pack. Their colouring is very varied,ranging from tan to dark brown.
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In the late afternoon,hippos bask in the Mara River. These vast animals have a very hierarchical society. They graze by night,eating as much as 60kg of grass in about five hours. No domestic animal can compete with them for the economy with which they convert vegetation into animal protein.
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An elephant takes a mud bath in the Amboseli National Park. By taking regular mud or dust baths to keep away flies and other biting insects,elephants take on the soil colour of their own habitats.
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A bull elephant digs mineral-rich soil with its tusks at a saltlick in the Aberdare Forest.
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A herd of elephants drinks from the Uaso Nyiro River in the Samburu National Game Reserve. By taking regular mud or dust baths to keep away flies and other biting insects,elephants take on the soil colour of their own habitats.
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A bull elephant caked in mud emerges from a swamp at Amboseli National Park. Elephants consume the equivalent of about 5% of their body weight (i.e. up to 300kg) in twenty-four hours.
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Baby Rhino being hand reared at Lewa. There is a partially sighted Rhino on Lewa whose babies require rescuing as she is unable to protect them and keep them safe from the threats of larger males. This young Rhino is on a two hourly feed programme.
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An unstriped ground squirrel.Unlike other members of the squirrel family,ground squirrels rarely climb trees. They frequently stand upright to get a better view of their surroundings. .
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A Bongo bull in a forest clearing. The range in Kenya of this thickset,reddish-brown antelope is restricted to high altitude forests; as such,they are rarely seen. Both males and females have lyre-shaped horns with pale tips but only bulls darken with age until they are almost black. .
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A reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) crosses a seasonal river bed in the Samburu National Reserve of Northern Kenya as a warthog stands in the shade of a thorn tree.These finely marked giraffes are only found in Northern Kenya and Somalia where they are now extremely vulnerable. .
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A spotted hyena family on the Masai Mara plains.Hyena cubs are born with dark fur and are temporarily blind. However,they are sufficiently big at eight months to join in at a kill even though they will continue to suckle their mothers until 18 months old. .
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A cheetah family on the grassy plains of Masai Mara. Cubs may stay with their mother for up to two years.The cheetah is a fast,efficient and frequent killer of gazelles and impala. .
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A bat-eared fox at the entrance to its burrow.These long-limbed,large eared 'foxes' feed on termites,beetles and other invertebrates. .
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