Category: Wildlife photo

  • Giraffes from Kenya

    Giraffes from Kenya

    Young males tend to fight together useful wide head moves. Here are a few giraffes suddenly met while in the middle of a personal fight. Wide slow motion, violent collisions, elegance of the very dynamic exchanges. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them

  • Camouflage in nature

    Camouflage in nature

    A very nice set of camouflaged animals. Source: Daily Mail.

  • Baboons

    Baboons

    A few baboons walking down a Kenyan road. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Guinea Baboon (Papio papio, Babouin de Guinée, Papión de Guinea), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Hippopotamus

    Hippopotamus

    Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius, Hippopotame, hipopótamo común). Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.

  • Leopard, food storage in a tree

    Leopard, food storage in a tree

    Leopard is a big cat special because it protects its largest preys (those which will make more than a single lunch) by dragging them away and up into a tree. It can take its own weight (or a little more) up to a high branch where no hyena would be able to steal it. It…

  • Lion’s lunch

    Lion’s lunch

    This lion is also eating a gnu. You will easily notice that flies are a very common insect around big cats. No, these are not black defects on the image. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them Lion (Panthera leo, Lion, León), Masai Mara, Kenya, September 2008.