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Running clan+us tailling them =?

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...

Posted: Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 11 April 2008

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THE LAST DON OF THE CRATER

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: Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008

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what goes around comes around

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...

Posted: Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008

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AGAINST ALL ODDS

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: Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008

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INTERACTION BETWEEN LIONS AND HYAENAS IN THE CRATER 2007-RECENT

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: Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008

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INTERACTION BETWEEN WARTHOGS AND OTHER PREDATORS IN THE CRATER

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: Ngorongoro Crater by eddie isaac, Date: 9 April 2008

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mysterious death!

Lying in the side of the road was this dead hyaena,cause of death,we did not know!The stench was unbearable,but this did not deter vultures from feasting on their fellow scavenger.But it did deter us from having our lunch!!

Posted: Ngorongoro Crater by timothy muthama, Date: 4 April 2008

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Cool Zebras

These duo were spotted at Ngorongoro crater. Their symmetric stripes attracted me the most.

Posted: Ngorongoro Crater by Uma Iyer, Date: 28 March 2008

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RARE!!!

Not all the scavengers were in atttendance,but they were well represented with hyenas and all kinds of vultures in attendance.This was at a cheeetah kill in the shores of Lake Ndutu.A cheetah mother had made a kill with the assistance of her three inexperienced subadult cubs. It was with great suprise to see a palm-nut vulture come and land on a tree...

Posted: Ngorongoro Crater by timothy muthama, Date: 27 March 2008

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Rain,rain and rains!!!!!

It seems that the November and December short rains are not falling anymore and instead we getting them in Jan and Feb for yhe last couple of years,which means that the rains start in Jan all the way to the end of may. The wildrbeest calving went on as well in the crater floor with lots of females droping their young in late Jan and all Feb which meant a...

Posted: Ngorongoro Crater by timothy muthama, Date: 25 March 2008

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