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Lions are extremely water shy.
But sometimes it just does not work and they have to go through it.
These young lions here had no other chance. Their mothers had been waiting for them on the other side of the Khwai since morning. It took hours for one of the youngsters to take heart and speed through the water. The rest of his kinsfolk followed immediately. In 40 seconds, the spectacle was over and the lions were unmolested by crocodiles and frogs on the saving shore.
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Leopard in the Khwai Private Reserve, Okavango Delta Botswana
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Desert Elephants in the dry Huab river bed in Namibia`s Damaraland
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Tsavo West, Kenya. We were told, that in Tsavo the male lions don´t get big manes. Don´t know why.
Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Lions in the Linyanti swamps Botswana
Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is in Kajiado County, Kenya. The park is 39,206 hectares (392 km2; 151 sq mi) in size at the core of an 8,000 km2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border.
Amboseli National Park offers some of the best opportunities to see African wildlife because the vegetation is sparse due to the long, dry months. The protected area is home to African bush elephant, Cape buffalo, impala, lion, cheetah, spotted hyena, Masai giraffe, Grant's zebra, and blue wildebeest. A host of large and small birds occur too.
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Baby Elephant and family in the Chobe NP, Botswana
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in the Lower Zambezi NP, Zambia
Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Female leopard (Panthera pardus pardus)
Masai Mara National Reserve-Kenya 201`9
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Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is in Kajiado County, Kenya. The park is 39,206 hectares (392 km2; 151 sq mi) in size at the core of an 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of the country have settled there attracted by the successful tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area (average 350 mm (14 in)) one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world with 400 species of birds including water birds, pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, hammerkops and 47 types of raptor. The park protects two of the five main swamps, and includes a dried-up Pleistocene lake and semi-arid vegetation.
240 kilometers (150 miles) southeast from the capital city Nairobi, Amboseli National Park is the second most popular national park in Kenya after Maasai Mara National Reserve.
The park is famous for being the best place in the world to get close to free-ranging elephants. The park also offers spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amboseli_National_Park
King Eider, Seller's Eider, Spectacled Eider, Red-throated Loon and Pacific Loon are considered the "big five" of Barrow Alaska. Wildlife photographers travelling to Barrow hope to get good photos of each of these species. I just noticed that the Pacific Loon was the last of the "big five" I had not posted yet! So there you have it! More to come off course :)
This photo is part of probably the most strange and in retrospect the most agonizing behavior that we have ever seen in a predator.
It had rained that morning and the safari had been very uneventful.
Suddenly our guide heard nagging and shouting from monkeys in the bush.
Quickly the cause of the theater was identified:
this leopard had authorized a vervet monkey baby, probably the mother had "lost" it in the excitement - vervet monkeys carry their offspring under their bellies, the babys cling to their mother.
Instead of killing the baby quickly, the cat played with him.
The cat occasionally let go of the little one, only to bully him again a short time later. She bit down just so hard that the monkey was not hurt. She took it in her mouth, as if she were transporting her own offspring.
The cat apparently used the tiny one as bait in the intention that one of the adults would become careless and start a "rescue operation".
We watched this spectacle for 30 minutes. None of the monkeys got cocky and we left the "crime scene", because we had to our bushflight.
The cat had not killed the monkey until then.Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Whirl takes a break from all that splashing to invite me to come 'play' - I think.
Panthera tigris altaica at the Brookfield Zoo.
We found this herd of Elephants while tracking African Wild Dogs.
Kwando, Botswana
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Male lion in the Central Kalahari, Botswana, November 2016
I did not even think of processing this picture at all as the light was very low.
It was taken at ISO 6400, f7.1 @ 1/20sec
Canon 5d mk3 300mm + 2.0 teleconverter
But with the new processing technologies you can get really nice results even in these conditions.
All animals in Africa bite, but the safari bug is the worst.
I take pictures because I like it, not because I am good at it.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
If you only visit 2 continents in your lifetime, visit Africa, twice.
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Lion yawning in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
All animals in Africa bite, but the safari bug is the worst.
The world is like a book and those, who do not travel, only read the first page.
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Little Leopard having fun in his playroom.
Seronera, Serengeti, Tanzania
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Lion on a buffalo´s carcass in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
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It almost takes your breath away when you face him in the wild at such a short distance! We all stand spellbound in the safari jeep, nobody says a word, everyone is just impressed by the situation! Etosha, Namibia
Da bleibt einem fast der Atem stehen, wenn man ihm in der freien Wildbahn auf so kurze Distanz gegenüber steht! Wir stehen alle wie gebannt im Safari-Jeep, keiner sagt ein Wort, alle sind nur von der Situation beeindruckt! Etosha, Namibia
Encounter with a desert-adapted Black Rhino in the Damaraland, Namibia, on a walk.
This was a desired encounter. We were with 3 guides taking good care of us.
As the huge animal came too close, they chased it away with loud shouts.
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The leopardess emerged from the tall grass just as we drove past. It is extremely difficult to find these elusive cats in the wild, especially when you are in a large concession where wild animals roam freely.
Duba Plains, Okavango Delta, Botswana
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Desert Elephant in the dry Huab river, Damaraland, Namibia
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