Tourism in Tanzania

21/01/2025

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard!

Niarira Zawadi, Agape Nchimbi

04/01/2025

As a guide, striking the right balance between sharing information and allowing guests to enjoy their experience is key to being professional. Here are some guidelines:

When Providing Information is Professional:
1. Relevance: Share information that aligns with the guests’ interests or the context of the moment, such as animal behavior, local culture, or conservation efforts.
2. Engagement: Answer guests’ questions fully and encourage curiosity without overwhelming them.
3. Storytelling: Use storytelling to make the information engaging and memorable, rather than bombarding them with facts.
4. Education: Offer insights that enhance their understanding and appreciation of the environment, but gauge their interest levels to avoid overloading them.

When It Becomes Too Much:
1. Overloading Details: Sharing excessive technical or niche information might overwhelm guests who prefer a more relaxed experience.
2. Interrupting Moments: Constantly talking during special sightings or serene moments might diminish the experience.
3. Neglecting Personal Connection: Focusing too much on facts without building a rapport can make the experience feel impersonal.

Tips for Balance:
• Read the Room: Observe the guests’ reactions and adjust your approach based on their interest levels.
• Ask for Feedback: Invite guests to let you know if they want more details or if they’d prefer quiet observation.
• Alternate Approaches: Mix short explanations with periods of silence to let the environment speak for itself.

Ultimately, professionalism as a guide involves knowing when to share, when to listen, and when to let nature take center stage.
Credit to Baraka Olais

31/10/2024

Dear Guides!
Using a trigger point is a great way to start engaging conversations about animals with guests. A trigger point can be anything that grabs their attention—something they see, hear, or even smell. Here are some tips to help you explain animals effectively:

1. Use a Trigger Point to Spark Interest
• Example: If guests see an elephant flapping its ears, you can say, “Notice how that elephant is flapping its ears? That’s not just to cool down—it’s also a sign of mood. Let me explain more…”
• Sounds & Calls: If you hear a lion roaring, you can say, “That sound can travel up to 8 km! Do you know why lions roar?” Then explain territory marking or communication.

2. Connect with Their Senses
• Ask guests to observe details: “See how that giraffe moves its tongue to strip leaves? Their tongues are tough and can be up to 50 cm long!”
• Let them listen: “Can you hear that deep rumbling sound? Elephants use infrasound to talk over long distances.”
• Encourage smell experiences: “That strong musky scent? A male elephant in musth—this means he’s in a hormonal state and ready to challenge for dominance.”

3. Tell Stories Instead of Just Facts
• Instead of saying, “Cheetahs are the fastest land animals,” tell a real story:
“Last year, I saw a cheetah mother teaching her cubs to hunt. She would trip a gazelle but not kill it, letting her cubs learn the skill. It was fascinating to watch nature’s classroom in action!”

4. Use Comparisons to Make It Relatable
• “A hippo can hold its breath underwater for 5 minutes—that’s longer than most Olympic swimmers!”
• “A lion’s bite is about 650 PSI. That’s strong enough to crush bones—about three times stronger than a big dog’s bite!”

5. Engage Them with Questions
• “Why do you think zebras have stripes?” (Then explain camouflage, cooling, or fly deterrence theories.)
• “How do you think giraffes sleep?” (Then describe how they sleep standing up for short periods to avoid predators.)

6. Show the Small Details
• Many guests focus on the big animals—point out the small ones too.
• “See that oxpecker bird on the buffalo? It’s not just removing ticks—it also warns the buffalo of danger by making a sharp call.”

7. Make It Fun & Interactive
• Play animal sound guessing games: “Let’s pause and listen—what animal do you think made that sound?”
• Use tracking: “Let’s follow these lion tracks. See how the back paw almost overlaps the front? That’s how you know it’s walking at a steady pace.”

By using trigger points, sensory engagement, storytelling, and interactive methods, you’ll make the safari experience more memorable for your guests!

Credit to Baraka Olais-wildlife speaker

03/10/2024

See how beautiful is this big cats of the jungle, I can definitely rate this picture as the picture of the year.
Release your opinions.
Pic credit to Pierre Simon

28/09/2024

Attention!! The lion you see is not dead, it’s just relaxing during the hot day.👇🏿👇🏿Some facts about lion ✍🏿

We now know that lions are different from other big cats in a such way that they live i n big group we call pride.
They have different ways of communication which they use such as; secretion, body contact, facial and sound.
Basing on sound
" Panther Leo". Panthera means roaring cats eg. Lion and leopard in Africa.
So roaring is the sound which Lion can make.

🦁Lions can make up to 9 sounds👇

(1) the territorial sound ‐that is for territory advertisement most made by male

(2) social sound, all can make it as social communication

(3)calling sound, can be male,female or cube when they searching each other

(4)feeding sound, when they struggle for survival at a kill

(5)mating sound, when are in mating

(6)warning sound, intimidation

(7) fighting sound, as males fighting to save or to win the territory

(8)lactating sound, as female giving milk to cubs and(9) as cubs hungry asking for food. All these are been done by larynx (voice box ) which is controlled by special muscles which are attached on larynx down the chest, so by pulling down the chest and realising charges the shape of larynx thus gives out different sounds.

03/09/2024

HOW DO HERBIVORES GET THEIR PROTEIN?
Animals that get all their nutrition from grass and other plants are called herbivores. Herbivores are capable of something that humans aren’t: digesting cellulose. Cellulose is a type of carbohydrate that helps make up plant cell walls. These cell walls are rigid and hard to break down, making them difficult to digest, even for herbivores. Herbivores have digestive systems that contain bacteria that have the enzymes necessary to break down cellulose. Once the cells are broken down they can access proteins, sugar and fat locked inside plant cells.

Grass is not only difficult to digest, but time-consuming to eat. Many herbivores depend on grass for a majority of their diet, but grass doesn’t contain as much protein as meat does. A predator can get enough protein by eating perhaps only a handful of meaty meals a day. However, animals who eat grass must spend most of their day munching away on grass to get enough protein and other nutrients in their diet.
Monogastrics

Digesting cellulose to obtain protein isn’t a fast process. Herbivores use fermentation to break down the grass they eat. Monogastric animals have only one stomach. Monogastrics include horses, zebras and rabbits. Humans are monogastrics, but aren’t capable of using cellulose. Herbivores that eat grass and break down cellulose have enlarged stomachs or an area in the intestine where fermentation can take place in order to break down plant cells. They are classified as either foregut or hindgut fermenters depending on whether fermentation happens in the stomach or further along in the digestive tract.

Ruminants
Ruminants, like cows, have stomachs with four parts and chew their cud. Ruminants are capable of digesting grass more completely since it stays in the digestive system longer. They have a section of their stomach called the rumen specifically for the fermentation of plant material. It’s full of bacteria capable of breaking down cellulose. They regurgitate the food and chew it to further break it down, called the cud.

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