Tag: Photo

  • African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)

    African Harrier Hawk (Gymnogene)

    I had already met one African Harrier Hawk in Botswana, so it was easy to recognize this very active eagle-like bird. African harrier Hawk (or Gymnogene) (Polyboroides typus), Gymnogène d’Afrique. Ndutu Lake, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

  • Leopard

    Leopard

    Leopard (Panthera pardus, Léopard) Seronera, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, March 2013

  • Baby leopard

    Baby leopard

    Some more… tomorrow. Leopard (Panthera pardus, Léopard) Seronera, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, March 2013

  • Purple Roller

    Purple Roller

    Rollier varié (Coracias naevius, Purple Roller) Ndutu Lake, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

  • Rock hyrax

    Rock hyrax

    Did you know that the hyrax is considered as, genetically, the nearest parent to the elephants? One big elephant being a cousin of an animal just a little bigger than a mouse… Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, Daman des rochers or daman du Cap) Seronera, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, March 2013

  • An elephant is going away

    An elephant is going away

  • Cheetahs

    Cheetahs

    Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus, guépard) Ndutu Lake, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

  • Cheetahs

    Cheetahs

    Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), guépard. Ndutu Lake, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, March 2013.

  • Gnu landscape

    Gnu landscape

    The wildebeest, also called the gnu is an antelope of the genus Connochaetes. If it looks dumb, it’s because it is: After all, this is only food-on-legs for the big cats of the savanna. Much more than a million of them are traveling all year long in the Great Migration that is bringing them through…