Reporting Date: 7th July 2012

Intruder chased off.

It was in the morning hours when we saw a hippo being chased away by another. It was a territorial male chasing away an intruder from his area of residence.  At first from a distance as we approached, we saw both the intruder and the territory owner showing their formidable teeth at each other but they did not fight as the intruder gave up when the dominant male roared aggressively at him. Normally male hippos defend particular areas of water in the rivers from other males and fierce fights would erupt if the intruder does not become submissive.

Reporting Date: 05.07.2012

Some of the many wild animals we have around us can get acustomed to human presence and become habituated.

A pride of Lions living around Keekorok air-strip have become very comfortable around cars, making them the one of the most famous pride in the Mara. The Keekorok pride was found walking on the road and they seemed to have a specific destination in mind. To everyones suprise they went direct to the waiting bay at Keekorok airstrip and sat down as though they were waiting to board a plane! It took a while before they moved on causing a slight worthwhile delay.

Reporting Date: 02.07.2012

Peter and his guests were having a good fullday game-drive with lots of plains game relaxing by the road side where the grass is a little shorter. At around noon the mara heat had forced most of the game to seek shade or go down to water holes. While driving along a lugga Peter came across a herd of elephant wallowing in the mud and they noticed one of the young ellys trying to cover its whole body with mud by rolling over and over.

Elephants wallow in the mud to cool off and protect their skin from being damaged by the sun.

Reporting Date: 30.6.2012

Sopa lion pride over the last couple of month has been very entertaining to our visitors into maasai mara reserve. The last episode was the breathtaking fight between them and the buffaloes. The pride had gone a number of days without success but fate finally sided with them. Ferdinand and his guest were on an half day game drive found the remains of what was part of buffalo team that was chasing away the mighty king of the jungle. They spend sometime watching the lions reduce the buffalo carcass to nothing but a sekeleton.