Kenya-Masai Mara, Day #2 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 Johannesburg,
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A fully grown adult Elephant reaches the
height of 10 to 13 feet, and weighs about 15,400 pounds. The largest...
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An Elephant spends about 16 hours a day
eating and consumes as much as 495 pounds of food per day.
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An Elephant's trunk has no bones but
nearly 150,000 muscles and nerves provide flexibility. Elephants'...
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Elephants have quite small eyes in
relation to their size. They have long stiff, eyelashes to protect...
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The Cheeseman Safari members traveled
four to a vehicle and were permitted to set the schedule for each...
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A baby Elephant gains about two pounds
each day. It can stand within an hour of birth and within a few days...
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An Elephant’s upper incisors form long
curved ivory tusks. Tusks are strong and are used for procuring food, but...
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Elephants are herbivores and eat all
types of vegetation such as grasses, leaves, fruits, and bark.
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African Elephants have large fan-shaped
ears. However, despite the size of ears, the Elephant’s hearing is poor....
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Female Elephants give birth only every
five years or so and they carry the calf for about 22 months which...
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Lions in general live 10 to 14 years in
the wild, while in captivity they can live longer than twenty years. In the...
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A pride of Lions consists of related
females and offspring and a small number of adult males. Groups of...
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Lions typically inhabit savanna and
grassland areas, although they may be found in areas of bush and...
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Lions spend much of their time resting
and are inactive for about 20 hours per day. Although Lions can be...
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Lionesses do the majority of the hunting
for their pride, being smaller, swifter and more agile than the males, and...
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Lionesses do the majority of the hunting
being smaller, swifter and more agile than the males, and unencumbered by the...
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A Lioness has an average gestation
period lasting about 110 days. She gives birth to a litter of one to...
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The Warthog is a powerful digger and,
when digging or feeding, it usually bends its front legs backwards and moves...
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The Warthog is a wild member of the
pig family. It is easily identifiable by the two pairs of tusks...
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The shape of a Hamerkop's head with a
curved bill and crest at the back is similar to a hammer giving the...
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The African Fish Eagle feeds mainly on
fish, which, upon spying it from a perch in a tree, it will swoop down...
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Plains Zebras and Wildebeests prefer the
same type of grass but eat different parts of the plant, which means they...
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Given a choice, predators prefer
Wildebeest meat to that of the Zebra, providing a measure of safety to the...
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The Zebra, a form of wild horse, has an
advantage in its striping which confuses predators and makes it harder...
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A female Wildebeest has a gestation
period of approximately 8-1/2 months, with calves able to stand within seven...
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