Tanzania-approaching Ngorongoro Crater is one of many articles to be created from photos taken on three connected safaris (Botswana and Zambia, Tanzania, and Kenya) between June 20 and July 31, 2009, with Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris, Saratoga, California (www.cheesemans.com). We had previously traveled with them to Antarctica, 2000/2001.
Diane and I flew out of Peoria on a 6:00 AM flight to Minneapolis on June 20. After a 7-hour wait, it was on to Amsterdam. After a 5-hour wait, we boarded a plane for an 11-hour flight to
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Thomson's Gazelles are about 25 inches
tall and weigh up to 40 pounds. They have light brown coats with white...
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The Candelabra tree's branches sprout
from the trunk and look like cactuses growing upwards similar to a...
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A Male Ostrich's long neck and legs keep
its head six to nine feet above the ground. Its eyes are said to be...
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Elephants are very attentive mothers,
and because most elephant behavior has to be learned, a mother keeps her...
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An Elephant's day is spent eating for
about 16 hours, drinking, bathing, dusting, wallowing, playing and...
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A fully-grown male Lion will reach a
height of four feet and weigh between 330-530 pounds.
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A Male Lion begins growing its mane
at about 18 months of age, and it continues to grow until about five years of...
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Lions lie around for about 21 hours each
day, and they can go five to six days without drinking water....
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One of our Tanzanian drivers is talking
about a termite mound, incorrectly in Africa called an "ant hill"....
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Oxpeckers are small birds found on the
backs of large mammals where they feed on ticks, insects infecting...
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Elephants are very social, often
touching and caressing one another and entwining their trunks.
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The Blacksmith Lapwing gets its name
from the repeated metallic 'tink, tink, tink' alarm call,...
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Elephants can live in nearly any habitat
that has adequate quantities of food and water. Their ideal habitat...
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The Warthog can dig its own burrow, but
it usually occupies abandoned burrows of other animals. It usually will back...
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Although Warthogs are usually seen in
open grasslands, they will seek shelter and forage in denser...
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A Giraffe has a six-foot 600-pound neck
and six-foot legs. The back legs look shorter than the front legs, but...
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Giraffes have a way or moving, or gait,
in which both the front and back legs on one side move forward together, then...
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Giraffes have not become endangered for
a number of reasons. They are not feared by humans, and they are not...
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The Giraffe has a stomach with four
compartments that digest the leaves it eats. When a giraffe isn't...
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Giraffes are so big that they really
don't need to hide from predators. Besides humans, they are hunted...
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An isolated rock hill, knob, ridge or
small mountain of granite that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or...
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In southern and south-central Africa,
this type of formation is known as a kopje which is a Dutch word from the...
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The kopjes tend to be a refuge for life
in the Serengeti of both Tanzania and Kenya. Where the soil is too...
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Some of our fellow travelers climbed
the kopje to look at paintings on the rock walls.
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The ancient rock art on the walls of the
kopje can be seen above the heads of Gail Cheeseman, one of our...
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