African Safari Animals and Birds with videos

In September and October, 2015, we took a 3 week African safari and saw marvelous views of big (and little) game, and many beautiful birds.  Check below for our many videos of these wonderful animals.

One of the high points of our safari was the day we saw a herd of elephants leaving their feeding grounds for the day, but one little baby had been left behind as they left.  When they realized they were missing a baby, the matriarch leader and the baby's mother (probably) stopped and trumpeted at him to tell him to catch back up with the herd.
See the video here:  https://youtu.be/YRHnRWmbGgw

Giraffes: We saw many of these wonderful and graceful animals during out trip.  Some places had the Masai Giraffes and other places has Rothschild's Giraffes.  Masai Giraffes are a little darker and Rothschild's Giraffes have the wonderful white stockings.  Tina got an opportunity to kiss a Rothschild's Giraffe in Kenya.


















After that Giraffe kissed Tina, he ran down to the river screaming "Bleah!, I kissed a girl!" and he rinsed his mouth off in the water for a long time.


more giraffe photos:
















Mwanza flat-headed rock agama lizard in Serengeti
Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_(lizard)

Lake Manyara had great animal cut-out signs

Cape Buffalo at Lake Nakuru

    

    Lion and lioness near Lake Nakuru

This lion was hopeful, but his strong willed lioness told him in no uncertain terms "Not Tonight!"
Watch our video here:
https://youtu.be/WDlF-5K0z8k





Lion family, dad, mom, big brother and 3 little cubs in Serengeti


    

    

Watch our lion family video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8CT67xFVU


Lions at Ngorongoro Crater causing a traffic jam:




Watch our video of the lions in the road here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaDiVsW6vgw

Rothschild's Giraffe at Lake Nakuru.  Note her white stockings!

Hippo in Serengeti
  

Watch our lonely hippopotamus video here:  https://youtu.be/ljhAam8ybgE
Watch our heavy breathing Hippos in the Masai Mara river here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsd74osrMjs


Baboon family in Serengeti              Baboons at Lake Manyara

Hyenas in the Serengeti

Watch our video of Hyenas in Ngorongoro Crater fighting over a wildebeest:

https://youtu.be/ALaaXZf1x0w


Crocodile in Serengeti

 

Elephant family in Tarangire N.P.     Watch our videos of these elephants

Overall family scenes:

https://youtu.be/8M4bs3teEPc

https://youtu.be/7p0jVY2pHvI

Baby elephants in a head butting match:
https://youtu.be/DKklDKaLbU0

Impala family in Tarangire               Watch our video of Impalas at a waterhole in Serengeti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPJBhmnMgcA

Vervet monkeys at Lake Nakuru

Ostrich mating dance in Masai Mara

Watch our video of dance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsYNAvXnq8







We saw these strangely beautiful and artistic tracks outside our tent at the Whistling Thorn
  tented camp near Tarangire National Park in Tanzania.

Then the next night we saw a big black millipede in our bathroom
when we needed to use it at midnight.
We think the mystery of the artistic tracks may be solved.














Zebra at Lake Nakuru                   Zebras at Amboseli N.P.           A herd of zebras is called a "Dazzle"

White Rhinoceros near Lake Nakuru in Kenya

Black Rhinos in Ngorongoro Crater


Wildebeest seemed to be everywhere and were the most numerous animal we saw.
 
Here is our wildebeest video from Masai Mara listen for the humor:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blXw-wkcdZs

and also our video from Serengeti:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW291q2DwmE