African Wildlife

Tsumcor waterhole busy with elephant, giraffe and zebra	Lion	Lion	Lioness posing in the evening light
Lioness	Lioness	Two lion cubs	Big Yawn!
One of 3 adolescent males near Springbokfontein. I ignored the calls to close the window!	The Lion King, Wolfsnes, near Okaukuejo	The Lion King	Lion pride after sucessful hunt
Bloody faced lions, Wolfsnes, Etosha. They do smell quite bad!	Something just got our attention. They can't be hungry already. They haven't even washed their faces yet!	Lion cub and Zebra kill	Lion cub and Zebra kill
Lion cub and Zebra kill	Lion leaving the bush	Lioness, Maasai Mara	Lion cub
Lioness walking this way	Lion cub	Lion cub playing with leftover warthog jaw	Lion cub near Fig Tree
Lioness near Fig Tree	The first lion of this year's trip hardly looking ferocious	Finally, a pair of big male lions just south of the main park road on the side road to Gemsbokvlakte	Bachelor number 2, Etosha
Three cheetah cubs near Governor's Camp	Mother cheetah and her cubs	Cheetah take over Gemsbokvlakte waterhole near Okaukuejo	This is the largest number of cheetah I've seen in one place, Etosha
Cheetah at attention, Gemsbokvlakte, Etosha	Big stretch!	Cheetah cubs stretch	Cheetah cubs
Cheetah	Cheetah taking a break	The other cheetah	Hoedspruit Cheetah Project outside Kruger Park
Hoedspruit Cheetah Project	Cheetah rushing to feeding time at Naua Naua	Naua Naua	Leopard
Leopard	Serval	African wild cat...looks like a house cat with attitude	Spotted hyena
Spotted hyenas	Spotted hyena cub	Young spotted hyena during night drive	Spotted hyena cub
Spotted hyena cub	Non-radio collared hyena nearby	Spotted Hyena	Spotted hyena at Klein Namutoni
Black-backed jackal	Pair of black-backed jackals near Wolfsnes	Black-backed Jackal, near Okaukuejo, Etosha	Black-backed Jackal
Yellow mongoose, Etosha National Park	Banded Mongoose	Banded mongoose	Banded mongoose
Slender mongoose on the side of the Namutoni-Tsumeb road	Olive Baboon (Anubis Baboon), Lake Nakuru	Male olive baboon with impalas in the background	Mother baboon nursing infant
Baboons do it doggie style	Large male olive baboon	Baboons, Zambia	Chacma Baboon, enroute to the Cape
Chacma Baboon on the beach, Cape of Good Hope National Park	Vervet Monkey	Vervet monkey	Vervet Monkey
Monkey at the Chobe Safari Lodge	Mom grooming Naughty Monkey	Mom! Stop, they're looking at me!	Vervet Monkey
Rhinos are well protected at Lake Nakuru	Rhino with an impressive horn	White rhino	A lone White Rhino, Lake Nakuru
Black rhino. They come to the floodlit waterhole at Okaukuejo every night	Black Rhino reflecting in the waterhole at Halali	A second Rhino arrives at Halali	Like Okaukuejo, the floodlit waterhole at Halali is an excellent place to see Black Rhino
Black Rhinoceros drinking at Halali	Elephant	Elephant, Chobe NP	This elephant wasn't too pleased with us
Close-up elephant, Chobe National Park	A thristy herd of elephants stampeding towards Klein Namutoni	Baby elephant playing in the mud, Klein Namutoni	Elephants spraying themselves at the waterhole
Elephants taking a dust bath after visiting the waterhole	Bull elephant in the evening at Klein Namutoni	By chance I find the main herd just at sunset arriving at Koinachas waterhole	Elephant silhouetted with the setting sun, Etosha
Elephant blowing dust	Elephant rubbing a tree	Elephant near Oloololo Gate	African Elephant
Elephants	Elephant close-up	The outsider	Elephant in musth
A lone bull arrives at Klein Namutoni after the herd departs	Sunset, Day 4	Elephant sniffing the air, Halili	Baby elephant at the center of attention
Baby goes boom!	Elephant at Halali waterhole	Elephant in the waterhole	Halali
Second baby elephant goes boom	Baby elephant eating elephant poo	Elephants, Chobe National Park	Elephant browsing away from the river
Elephant climbing out of the river	The tip of the trunk of a submerged elephant	Elephant	Elephant close up
Hippo grazing on land at dawn	The hippo finally takes notice of us	The yawn is a warning	Open Wide!
Hippo exiting the water, Mlilwane	Hippo closeup, Mlilwane	Hippo, Mlilwane	Hippos in the Mara River
Hippo climbing out of a mud pool	Hippo	Of all our sundowners in Africa, this was the best	Giraffe at sunset, Chobe
Giraffe at sunset, Chobe	Giraffe	Giraffe near Namutoni	Giraffe at Moholoholo
Giraffe	Maasai Giraffe	Giraffe walking on the road, sunset, Namutoni	Giraffe bending down to pick up a bone
Giraffe sucking on a bone	Giraffe with a bone	Giraffe, near Okerfontein, Etosha	Giraffe near Namutoni
Giraffe, Etosha	Giraffe drinking at Groot Okevi with Oryx and Springbok	Giraffe	Giraffes, Chobe National Park
Buffalo	African buffalo drinks in the pouring rain	Young buffalo	Buffalo
Wildebeest	Blue wildebeest, Etosha	Wildebeest face off, Andoni waterhole, Etosha	Wildebeest, Maasai Mara
Impala, Lake Nakuru National Park	Impala	McDonald's logo emblazoned on the rear of impalas marking them as fast food	Impala, Chobe National Park
Impala, Chobe National Park	Black-faced Impala	Is that a yawn?	A pair of male impalas sparring at Goas waterhole
Black-faced Impala, Goas	Mom's Impala, Etosha	Springbok at dawn, Etosha	Springbok near Okaukuejo camp
Springbok, Etosha	Springbok springing (pronking)	Herd of springbok, Etosha	Red Hartebeest
Red Hartebeest and Black-faced impala at Goas	Coke's Hartebeest	Coke's Hartebeest (aka Kongoni), Nairobi National Park	Topi (Tessebe)
Topi	Blesbok, Mlilwane	Bontebok, Cape of Good Hope	Zebra
Plains Zebra, Etosha	Plains Zebra, Etosha	Zebra, Okaukuejo	Large zebra herd takes over Okaukuejo
Zebra	Zebra	Part of a large zebra herd	Plains Zebra, Etosha
Grant's Gazelle	Grant's Gazelle	Tommy fleeing	Thomson's Gazelle
Thomson's Gazelle	The rare Roan antelope in the thick bush, Waterberg	We were lucky and found a herd rare of Sable Antelope	Sable Antelope, Chobe National Park
Sable Antelope, Chobe National Park	Waterbucks	Defassa waterbuck	Waterbuck, Lake Nakuru
A male Puku, a rare species in Botswana, it is common in Zambia	Puku with elephants in the distance	Damara Dik Dik	A pair of Damara Dik Diks, Klein Namutoni
On morning of my 5th and last day at Etosha, I returned to Klein Namutoni	Damara dik-dik, Etosha	Damara Dik Diks are common along the main road from Namutoni to the Von Lindequist Gate	Oribi
Oribi	Female oribi	Gemsbok (Oryx)	Magnificient gemsbok (oryx) between Okondeka and Wolfsnes
Gemsbok herd at very productive waterhole at Andoni, Etosha	Gemsbok (Oryx) with mismatched horns	Gemsbok (Oryx) at Nebrownii	Gemsbok (Oryx) at Nebrownii
Gemsbok (Oryx) fighting at the Nebrownii waterhole, Etosha	Steenbok	Steenbok	Another tiny antelope species, the Steenbok, Etosha
Steenbok in tall grass	Eland	Eland are the largest antilope	Chobe Bushbuck
Kudu buck leaving the riverfront	Greater Kudus, Chobe National Park	Greater Kudu	Greater Kudu, Klein Namutoni
Female Greater Kudu bolting across the road	Greater Kudu, Etosha	Large male kudu behind a game fence along the main road	Greater Kudu, Klein Namutoni
Typical warthog view	Warthog	Warthog, Namutoni	Warthog running, Mlilwane
Warthog	Rock Hyrax (or "Dassie"), Table Mountain	Cape ground squirrel at Okaukuejo	Cape ground squirrel
Cape ground squirrel - certainly a male	Cape (South African) Fur Seal colony, Cape Cross. You can't imagine the smell!	Seal mother and pup, Cape Cross, Namibia	A newborn seal, Cape Cross
...on the wrong side of the wall, Cape Cross	A huge Nile Crocodile	A huge Nile Crocodile	Crocodile
Crocodile at the crossing	A pair of Nile crocodiles fighting	Nile crocodile	Baby crocodile on the Zambezi River Safari
Nile monitor lizard	A big lizard	Nile monitor	Male Red Headed Rock Agama
Snake, restcamp at Namutoni. The concensus is that it's a Puff Adder (poisonous)	Cape Cobra coiled	I nearly ran this over	Deadly Black Mamba sunning itself on the road, Chobe
A flock of birds known locally as "mange-mille"	Researchers named one dominant male like this "Chewbaca"	Gelada with amazing eyes munching on grass	Gelada infant riding its mother's back
The dominant male of this group	Excuse me, mom....	A pair of serious looking female Geladas	Gelada grooming
Gelada grooming, Simien Mountains National Park	My what big teeth you have!	We're in luck....Walia Ibex - Capra walie	Walia Ibex, Simien Mountains National Park
Walia Ibex, Simien Mountains National Park	Golden jackal (Canis aureus) Simien Mountains, Ethiopia	We didn't manage to spot the rare Ethiopian wolf	Cape Angulate Tortise (Chersina angulata) Cape Point
Chacma Baboon, False Bay	My What Big Teeth You Have	Another group of baboons farther along the road	Great White Shark
Great White Shark - dorsal fin	Great White Shark jumping out of the water	Great White Shark from the shark cage	Bontebok National Park is home to around 200 of the animals
Red Hartebeest (Alcelaphus caama), Bontebok National Park	Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis)	Bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus)	Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), Addo National Park
Warthog close-up, Addo Elephant National Park	Yellow Mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), Addo Elephant National Park	Addo Elephant National Park	Kudu, Addo Elephant National Park
Kudu, Addo Elephant National Park	Big-tusked warthog, Addo National Park	Namibia has 2 species of python - Angolan Python (Python anchietae) and African Rock Python (Python sebae)	Big bug - Armored Ground Cricket (Acanthoplus longipes), Namibia
Baby gemsbok (oryx), Farm Olifantwater West	Springbok should be nervous here...they're a regular on the farm's menu	Springbok, Farm Olifantwater West, Namibia	Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris)
The meerkats are very shy	5 meercats, Olifantwater, Namibia	Aerial view of a herd of gemsbok (Oryx gazella), Olifantwater West, Namibia	Gemsbok - they look and taste great!
Hippo with open mouth Puku Pan	Bushbuck - Imbabala - (Tragelaphus sylvaticus)	Puku in the early morning light	Female impala, Puku Pan
Cheetah, the world's fastest land animal	...and she's off...	Elephants, Puku Pan	Nice tusks on that one...
Puku Pan - elephant	Four female puku	Male Puku	Baby puku
Puku	Nice face...	That's better...show us your teeth	Lioness in the tall grass, Kafue National Park
Young male lion, one of three in this group	Lion showing teeth during a yawn	Private moment	The mane is just starting to grow
Very fine specimen of young male lion	This lion was edgy the whole time	Lion at sunset near McBride's Camp, Kafue National Park	Zambia10 0637.jpg
Puku, Kafue National Park, Zambia	Stick bug on a small branch, Kafue National Park, Zambia	Male puku, Kafue National Park	Bachelor herd of Puku, Kafue National Park
Hippo in the hot spring near McBride's Camp, Kafue National Park	Hippo in the hot spring near McBride's Camp, Kafue National Park	Bushbuck hanging around McBride's Camp	Impala, Kafue National Park
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani)	Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus)	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats	Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe jumping with the main herd in the distance	Black Lechwe easily leaping over an embankment	Zebra vastly outnumbered by Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats
Vervet Monkey, Wildlife Camp	Little frog in the chalet	Baboon, Wildlife Camp	The African Buffalo, one of the Big 5, has a reputation as a very dangerous animal
Hippo lunging	Hippo in the Luangwa River	Banded mongoose at Wildlife Camp	Mongoose on my shoe
Vervet Monkey, Wildlife Camp	Vervet Monkey, Wildlife Camp	An elephant in the bush just inside South Luangwa National Park	Impala walking past a group of baboons, South Luangwa National Park
Zebra in the road, South Luangwa National Park	A pair of puku	Night drive at South Luangwa - civet	Leopard (Panthera pardus), South Luangwa National Park
While it was nice to get close, when we first found this leopard he was heading towards some unsuspecting impala	The guide said this leopard is a young male, not full grown	Ironic that I saw my first two leopards on the same day that my 400mm lens broke...	The male of a South Luangwa pride of 19 lions - he doesn't seem very big to have so many females
Impala, South Luangwa National Park	Zebra, South Luangwa National Park	Young buck, South Luangwa National Park	Baby puku, South Luangwa National Park
Thornicroft Giraffe or Rhodesian Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis thornicrofti)	Thornicroft Giraffe, South Luangwa National Park	Thornicroft Giraffe, South Luangwa National Park	Frisky puku, South Luangwa National Park
Lion resting under a bush, South Luangwa National Park	Waterbuck, South Luangwa National Park	Big bull elephant with huge tusks, South Luangwa	A pair of Bushbuck, South Luangwa National Park
He really doesn't look big enough to be the master of a pride of 18 lionesses	Eyes of a Common Genet (Genetta genetta), rather shy and difficult to get close to	African porcupine we just missed crossing the road	Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta), South Luangwa National Park night drive
No leopard tonight but we got a Scrub Hare	Goliath Heron (Ardea goliath), Zambezi River	Zambia10 2899.jpg	Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), Lower Zambezi National Park
Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus), Lower Zambezi National Park	Medium-sized crocodile racing for the safety of the river	A pair of jackals (Canis adustus), Lower Zambezi National Park	Impressive bull elephant coming out of the bush
Yes, I'm sure it's a boy...	A monster, this one	Crocodylus niloticus, Chobe River	Elephant, Chobe National Park
Elephant, Chobe National Park	Nile Crocodile, Chobe National Park	Large herd of elephants, Chobe National Park	Elephant, Chobe National Park
Hippo out of water, Chobe	Young elephant, Chobe	Hippo, Chobe National Park	Hippos, Chobe National Park
Hippo teeth	Nile monitor lizard, Chobe National Park	In Botswana, the Puku (Kobus vardonii) occurs only in Chobe National Park	Cape Buffalo resting in the shade along the Chobe River
Hippo at Sunset, Chobe River, Botswana-Namibia	King of the Beasts, a large male lion sunning himself on a cold morning	Lion in the early morning sun, Chobe National Park	Lion in the early morning sun, Chobe National Park
Lion roar - calling the pride, Chobe National Park	Cape (African) Buffalo, Chobe National Park	Baboon grooming her infant, Chobe	Big male baboon smiling for the camera
Big male baboon with signs of a recent flight, Chobe National Park	Excited male baboon, Chobe	Buffalo, Chobe National Park	Banded mongoose, Chobe National Park
Giraffe, Chobe National Park	...with cubs! Just 500m from the park gate, Chobe National Park	She notices us...	One of three small cubs, Chobe National Park
Mother lioness and cubs	Mother lioness gives cub a little love bite	Cub grabs mother lion's tail, Chobe National Park	The second big lioness
Young lion, maybe 1 1/2 or 2 years old	Mother lion with old cub and new cub, Chobe National Park	He ran into the water before we got too close	We have his undivided attention...
Elephant, Northern Okavango Delta	Elephant raising his trunk	Small bat in the Tomb of Gabra Masqal, Axum	Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana), Somaliland
Hamadryas (Papio hamadryas) are the species of baboon found in Somaliland