Ground pangolin:

 Is an elusive creature that has quickly become one of the world’s most trafficked mammals. They are hard to spot in the wild because of their nocturnal behavior, poached and traded more than even elephants and rhinos, and a growing demand for them puts them at risk of extinction. An estimated 100,000 are taken from the wild each year.
Wrong beliefs hence poaching.
Large-scale trafficking is driven by a belief that pangolin scales have magical and curative properties and demand for their meat. When mixed with bark from certain trees, the scales are thought to neutralize witchcraft and evil spirits.
NB: [The animal can be the sign of good upcoming future of weather, crops or conflicts]

Photographed at Lamakau swamp,Tarangire National park
November 4 2019, on the night game drive.
Oliver's camp...AsiliaAfrica ""

once-in a lifetime sighting to complete 2019.

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We went on a game drive in the Northern side of the Mara river at Lamai wedge on an early morning ..so we cruised around and the drive was spectacular;Lamai wedge was teaming with varied species of animals,guess what as we just began to drive slowly out of Lamai wedge heading back to the southern side of the Mara river were our Camp is two beautiful Cheetah brothers showed up ;they were surrounded by a huge herd of Wildebeest ..walking through the herd looking for the weak and wounded ones..suddenly they changed their movement and began to Sprint scattering the entire herd and amidst of the dusty storm created by the Wildebeest running frantically from panic the Cheetah brothers successful manage to take down a young Wildebeest;a meal that lasted them for half an hour before it totally gone..
What a lovely day at serengeti national park.🐆🐆

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Hippopotamus Basking #Serengeti National Park

Hippos spend the majority of their time in rivers and lakes.They like to stay in water to keep cool amid the intense heat of African sun.🌞🌞🌞🌞
Here comes a bloat of chubby grey hippos basking at the shore  to warm their bodies in the early morning.
📸Noel Akyoo

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Elephant mothers and calves crossing the Mara river#Serengeti park.

It is not just wildebeest that migrate even the ellys🙊🙊

Elephants love to Swim ,they can consume large amount of water-upto 15quarts of it at once 💧💧💧
And they also need a large amount of habitat because they eat so much food 🌳🌳🌳🌳.
Have a look at these amazing herd of elephants after quenching their thirst,they decided to pay visit to Masai Mara Game reserve to see what mother nature would offer 😋😋😋😋since both parks share a border and form one ecosystem .

Then later came back.

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Serengeti (Mara River)...Magical Place.

We were just driving along the scenic beautiful Mara river enjoying game viewing, then as we were going from number nine to eight wildebeest crossing point suddenly around the corner came a raft of hippos in the river and merely two meters from were The hippos are there was a live Wildebeest in the Water,it looked as if it were stuck in the mud/rock,one of the hippo inquestively came close by the stuck Gnu face to face as if in staring contest, and gently he nudged the gnu of from were it was held,possibly giving a nature helping hand to an unusual neighbour, slowly the gnu swam towards the river bank suddenly it stopped halfway before it reached to the river bank probably to catch a breath,immediately when the GNU stopped the hippo came rushing and drawn it,consequently he began biting the Gnu and we noticed that the animal was in agony course it had a broken leg, it died from being drawn and bit by the hippo, eventually after it died from what seemingly unusual behavior to these Large grass eating mammal, he began to bite and trying to get a chunk of meat of the Wildebeest, nature's unpredictable ..
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