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Elephant transplanting a seeding by carrying it on its tusk Elephants are sometimes reputed for leaving a trail of destruction in their path but this is at no fault of their own. Their size and appetite does not leave much to the imagination. Come the dry season, elephant herds traversing through the Savannah areas can literally be tracked by following the path of uprooted trees, felled branches and torn up pieces of tree bark scattered all over. Besides all this, little do we realize that the level of this devastation is actually balanced with creation! Elephants spread plant seeds over very wide areas with their droppings, the same dung is also rolled off by dung beetles underground which helps fertilize the soil and on very rare occasion's as photographed above, elephants even uproot little seedlings involuntarily and later transplant them to other distant areas. Nature keeps everything balanced, its a ...

Jackal returning to its den at dawn With an average life span of 8 to10 years, the jackal is commonly mistaken to be a scavenger. In reality, they are quite versatile hunters. They also are capable of adjusting their diet to what is in season within their territory. Being omnivores, they commonly feed on invertebrates, small mammals such as rodents, hares, dik-dik, antelope fawns; birds like spur-fowls, francolins, guinea-fowl; reptiles like snakes and lizards. However when an opportunity for a free meals arises, such as, a lion having made a kill, the jackal will wait patiently among the vultures to home in on the carcass and quickly grab a piece of meat. Did you know that the main predator of the jackal is the leopard! The female jackal will give birth to 3-6 pups in her underground den and after about 12 months the pups will now leave to search for their own territories.

A young baboon drenched after a short rain in Shimba Hills National Reserve With a life span of about 25 years, there are two types of baboons commonly found in Kenya. The Olive Baboon and the Yellow Baboon. The Olive baboons are a little larger and darker in colour and can be found in the northern and central parts of Kenya. While their Cousins the Yellow Baboons, are smaller and lighter yellow  in colour. They are more commonly found along the coast and southern parts of the country. Baboons are Omnivorous and can usually be seen eating grass, flowers, seeds, berries and insects but they have also been noted hunt down very young gazelle, birds and also on occasion, smaller monkeys such as vervet or sykes monkeys. When a baboon is born, it will spend an average 4 weeks tightly clinching with all four limbs to the under belly of its mother. At about 5 weeks onward, the baby can be noticed riding on its mothers back like a jockey on a hor...

Warthog in Shimba Hills National Reserve The warthog can be found in almost all the national parks that Kenya has to offer. Weighing an average 100 to 200 pounds, they have been known to live for up to 15 years. Known commonly in Swahili as Ngiri, after the first sighting, you will understand why some local guides also refer to them as Kenyan Express! These strange looking but beautiful animals were made famous by the Lion King Cartoon, Pumba, and have become one of the most popular wildlife seen and asked to be seen during a safari.  Warthogs are grazers and you may notice them coming down on their knees as they dig into the ground looking for bulbs and roots with their snout and tusks. Its always entertaining to find them playing and wallowing about in the muddy waterholes. Did you know that Warthogs enter their underground burrows backwards?  The female will gestate for about 170 days and her litt...

A Tuskless Matriarch leading the way in Tsavo East National Park In Shimba Hills National Park Over the last number of years, it has been widely noticed that elephants in the Tsavo ecosystem seem to be growing into adulthood with much shorter tusks while some others have no tusks at all. A common question I am asked is; where are the mighty tuskers that once roamed Tsavo? A very viable question which in reality is open to interpretation, but for now, deserves an answer based on scientific research, historical statistics and future predictions. Quite typically, we can easily assume that most large tuskered elephants have been decimated by human harvesting. Meaning, they have been killed for either sport, consumption or commercial poaching. But will we ever see these majestically armored elephant specimens in the future? Animals have been killed by people for food, clothing, medicine, ornaments and the like from the moment mankind began. The most sought-after more often tha...

Hon . Wekesa handing over a flag for the newly rebranded Mombasa Marine Park & Reserve. The Kenya Wildlife Service Re-branded the Mombasa Marine Park and Reserve on 27th June at the Public Beach in Bamburi and Wild Kenya Safaris was invited as honored guests to this auspicious event! Hon. Wekesa during the ground breaking ceremony of  Reef Flats & the new Offices.   The Re-branding of the park was aimed at improving its identity towards being a world class attraction for Marine activities and establishing a globally recognized marine park. As the director of KWS  appropriately mentioned "Tourism stakeholders state that our beaches  and marine parks are old and tired, how can gods creation ever become  that, it is up to us to rejuvenate ourselves, and this is exactly what we are doing". From left to right, a Power House Discussion between KWS Director, Senior Warden Marine Parks Arthur Tuda, Minister of Fo...

Elephant at a Tsavo Waterhole with the wet trunk of a neighbor in its mouth Undoubtedly one of the most photographed animals in Kenya has to be the mighty elephant. We seem to have a great connection with these gentle giants and no photographic safari is complete without a shot of elephants. One of the most popular photographic points is at waterholes. During the dry season, a single waterhole can have over 100 elephants traverse through. Stationing yourself patiently at one of these points will reap great photo rewards. It will also save you a lot of time and fuel compared to the alternative of jumping from herd to herd across the park. At these waterholes, the elephants come to life. They express more action, bonding and emotion, little ones wallow in the water, teens wrestle against each other, while adult elephants trumpet water over themselves to cool off as they relive their junior days. When a herd moves in before drinking, they wil...