Elephants cross the dried lake bed. The dried bed of Lake Amboseli provides a wonderful setting to view elephants. The bands of colour are striking. We had watched this herd of elephants approaching from the distance. We could see adults and very young calves as they...
Cheetah suckling her very young cubs. As the sun was setting over the Kitirua Conservancy in Kenya’s Amboseli region, we came across this cheetah with her four, four month old cubs. They were hiding in bushes and difficult to see. We stayed with them hoping they wold...
Elephants on the dusty bed of Lake Amboseli. It was hot and windy as we made our way across the dried up bed of Lake Amboseli, Kenya. In the shimmer ahead we spotted a herd of elephants heading towards us. We waited for them to get closer and then spent quite sometime...
Very young Cheetah cubs playing with mum. As the sun was setting over the Kitirua Conservancy in Kenya’s Amboseli region, we came across this cheetah with her four, four month old cubs. They were hiding in bushes and difficult to see. We stayed with them hoping they...
Howling African Golden Wolf. Prior to 2015, the African Golden Wolf was known as the Golden jackal. But detailed genetic analysis showed that the Golden Jackal was more closely related to grey wolves than they are to Eurasian Golden Jackals. Hence the African Golden...
A very rare sighting: a melanistic (black) Serval cat hunting. We had three sightings of very rare melanistic (or black) Serval cats in Amboseli/Kitirua, Kenya. Two of them were very fleeting. On this occasion, this remarkable cat was visible for quite sometime as it...