Huge Butterfly at Mt Elgon NP

During a walk in a rainforest in Kenyan part of Mt Elgon, we encountered this pretty butterfly:

Vultures Feast - a movie

Here is a movie of vultures fighting over remnants of a gnu in Masai Mara NP:

Vulture Feast

Here is a group of vultures feasting on a recent prey that Masai Mara lions had for breakfast:

Vulture in the Sky

Masai Mara NP is a fantastic place to observe nature in action. Not only you can see there many exotic animals, but you can also observe their daily activities.

We found vultures to be an invaluable help in finding fresh dead corpses of other animals. Since they are high-fliers, we could see them from miles away and could navigate our car in their direction:

Red Starfish

Part of our holidays in Kenya we spent at the coast south of Mombasa. The beach there was wonderful, and the ocean even better. It was so full of animals that you could simply go for a walk in the water and pick them with your bare hands:

Two Baboons

Here is a rather interesting video of a baboon having an erection:

Hippos in Tsavo NP

Tsavo NP in Kenya is full of hippos:

Marabou Stork

Marabou Stork is one of the biggest birds in the world, second in size only to Condor. They inhabit Kenya and can be easily spotted even in the big cities:

Ostrich in Masai Mara

Ostriches are super-fast, but not very smart. Most of the ones that we met instead of running away from us were running in the same direction in which we were moving...

Curious Zebra in Masai Mara

Zebras are not as shy as giraffes, but most of them like to keep their distance from people. This zebra was a bit different in this respect, as it seemed to enjoy our company and was curiously checking us out:

Orange Animals

I'm not sure what this animal is. I think it might be a subspecies of a sea cucumber. I saw it in Kenya, on the beach near Mombasa:

Gnus in Masai Mara NP

Huge Hermit Crab

While vacationing on the Kenyan coast near Mombasa, we found this truly huge hermit crab:

Shy Giraffe on the Road

Here is a short movie of our equally short encounter with a very shy giraffe in Tsavo NP in Kenya:

Zebras in Hell's Gate NP in Kenya

Hell's Gate NP is one of only two Kenyan national parks that can be explored by foot:

Passing next to zebras is nice, but next to a big group of buffaloes watching you, not so much... But that's a story for another post.

Donkeys and Kilimanjaro

We encountered many interesting animals on the road leading through Masai land near Amboseli NP in Kenya. The first animals that we met were those two donkeys, who kindly enough posed for us in front of Mount Kilimanjaro:

Elephants in Masai Mara, Kenya

My two favorite photos of elephants from Masai Mara National Park in Kenya: