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Our safari experiences will provide you with an authentic adventure, creating lasting memories and fostering a deep appreciation for the natural world.

19/10/2026

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19/10/2026

19/10/2026

05/10/2026

Look past the lion. There is a line of elephants out on the plain.

In Amboseli, Kenya, scientists played recorded lion roars to 39 elephant families. Every family reacted more to three lions than to one. Male roars were the real test: families led by the oldest females bunched together and listened hardest, while families with younger leaders often under-reacted. It matters, because a male lion is about 50 percent heavier than a female and can bring down a young elephant on his own.

Our own photograph, from a drive in Kenya. How many elephants can you count?

04/10/2026

Hyenas get called scavengers. In Kenya's Maasai Mara, where researchers have followed them since 1988, hyenas get about two thirds of their food by hunting it themselves.

The stealing mostly goes the other way. As National Geographic put it, a hyena's kill is more likely to be stolen by lions than the other way round. One seven-year study in the Mara saw hyenas take meat from lions only 17 times.

Our own photograph, from a drive in Kenya. Be honest: before today, which one did you think was the thief?

03/10/2026

Nineteen kilometres to Oloololo Gate. She did not look like she was going.

Most lionesses stay with the pride they were born into for their whole lives. A long study of Serengeti and Ngorongoro lions found that about one in three young females do leave. Even then, they almost always settle on land that overlaps the place they grew up. As lion researcher Craig Packer puts it, they have been listening to their neighbours roar all their lives.

Our own photograph, from a drive in the Maasai Mara. Where did you grow up, and do you still live there?

02/10/2026

Up on a termite mound, head turned, eyes half shut.

Inside a cheetah's eye, the cells that pick up fine detail are packed into a long, flat band that runs from side to side. Scientists in Vienna found this band in cheetahs and in other animals of open country. The likely reason is that it lets the animal scan the whole horizon without moving its eyes much.

We found this one on a drive in Kenya. If you stood up there, what would you look for first?

01/10/2026

Look at the size of those ears. A serval finds most of its food by listening for rodents moving in long grass, then drops on them with a high pounce that can top a metre.

It works surprisingly well. In one study in Tanzania's Ngorongoro, about half of all serval hunts ended in a catch. Serengeti lions manage roughly one in four, and fewer when they hunt alone.

This one crossed a dusty track on one of our drives in Kenya and stopped to look back at us. Had you heard of a serval before today?

30/09/2026

See the little bump on the calf's nose? That's where the horn begins.

Every rhino is born without one. It shows up as a small bump, then keeps growing for the rest of the animal's life. A calf usually stays with its mother for two to four years, so there's no rush.

Mum, meanwhile, had her back to us the whole time. Our own photo, from a drive in Kenya. Be honest: which end did you notice first?

29/09/2026

Before the evening graze, individual buffalo in a resting herd stand up, stare in one direction for about a minute, and lie back down. When the herd moves off, it heads the average way they looked.

Ecologist Herbert Prins watched a herd in Tanzania do this and called it voting. Most of the voters were adult females. So this bull probably didn't get much of a say, and he has the face of someone who knows it.

We met him on a drive in Kenya. Would you hold that stare, or look away first?

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