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It never happened, an hour and fifteen minutes is the record!!, and this is what happened; we took a drive down into the crater with a picnic lunch and we decided to start our drive through the famous Lerai forest actually it was a nice day.
Just at the beginning of the forest we saw the troop of Velvet monkeys up in the Fever trees acacias and one big...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 18 November 2008
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it is a clear morning and the recent rains make the whole crater floor to look as a beautiful green paradise, just at the north east of the crater by Kilima cha Morum we saw the clan of about twenty hyaenas running towards the hill and we decided to follow them by the other way around and we found two female lioness just finihed to eat the wilderbeest and...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 11 April 2008
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 Three years of doing follow up of the crater Elephants, out of three of them he is the only one that is still alive, size wise he is not that huge like also the only one remain with no tail Taft that’s the only way to recognize him but for this one…. They can go up to 6000kgs, 3.3mts shoulder height, and the tusks weigh maximum up to 130kgs and 3.5mts...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008
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The most abundant large carnivore in areas where antelopes and zebra abound everywhere south of the Sahara except rain forest and true desert up to 400 meters above the sea level. These are the mostly known as scavengers of all in Africa the Spotted Hyaenas, they mostly depend on the lions to make kill and they just scavenge but in the Crater is the other...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008
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This is new pride of lions only on the side of males but the females are the one that occupies from Seneto springs through goose ponds up to Lake Magadi and to the Hippo poll. On the side of males according to the origin of the three dominant males they have dark manes so they have blonde mane it means they come from outside of the crater from the...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008
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In Africa southern of Sahara on the hierarchy of predators the top one is a Lions followed by Hyenas. This is story about there interaction down in the crater floor. Because these two social predators share the same food resource especially wildebeest and zebras sometime warthogs but only from the lions and the clashes are frequently although most of...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008
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These are the hogs adapted in the savannah areas feed mainly on roots grasses and different shrubs This base on my field observation in the crater lodge since January 2005 until now Are about 6 different families of hogs based on the northern zone of lake magadi Right on the northern east of lake magadi to the area where by the roads make like a...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008
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i came to realise it was the the same same lioness that i saw two times earlier in the same area up in a same tree she was not up in that tree many time like othe lions in other places for the reason of avoiding flies and to get a cool brees BUT she was there for a protection and at a nice vintage spot for her three tiny tine cubs which are less than a...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 18 March 2008
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on my way out of the crater on the southeast of the crater by the Gorigo swamp at Lions grassess came a nice brees because the rain was about to come down and out of nowhere here came out a big pride of 13 lions came out to enjoy the brees ,that pride included one huge black maned lion,five cubs about three months old,two cubs about five months old,five...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 18 March 2008
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right in the same tree that i saw her up into but in a different branch hopefully it might be the same female lioness up in a tree in a very comfortable position in a fig tree that was really exitting much more even to my guest because they did not see that kind of a sighting even in their other places they`ve been after a while we drove back in the same...
Posted: &BEYOND Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 12 March 2008
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