Today I finally travelled back to the Masai Mara after almost two months of absence. The trip to the US and renovation works in the house in Nairobi have kept me away from the field during this extremely heavy rainy season. The Mara is all green, […]
0 Read MoreUnder cloudy skies we spent some time at a Spotted Hyena den, where pups of different ages were drinking milk from their mothers. In particular, there was a couple of really tiny pups, maybe two weeks old, extremely cute. The Lion cubs along the Mara river […]
0 Read MoreThis morning the place where I have been following the honeymooning Leopards was massively occupied by the Ol Kiombo pride of Lions. Three young females, two adults and five tiny cubs were all on the banks of the river. I assumed that the Leopards must have […]
0 Read MoreAfter a couple of days of intensive and fruitless search for Caracals I visited the Talek river to find some interesting situations. The territorial female Leopard, Mbili, was consorting with a huge male. She didn’t seem particularly interested, she was snarling at him a lot, but […]
0 Read MoreThe Great Wildebeest Migration has unexpectedly already reached the Mara. Herds have been seen crossing the Sand River into the Masai Mara on the eastern side of the reserve. In the northern section of the Mara a few small herds are crossing the long grass plains, […]
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