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TANZANIA-2
(Last updated 4/2/01)

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Wild sisal growing on the rim of the Oldupai (Maasai for sisal) Gorge

Crossing the Oldupai on the way to the Serengeti

Overview of Serengeti camp, beneath a kopje, or rock outcrop (left); granite boulder, the "stuff" of kopjes (right)

Camp visitors - an African starling (left), and a huge male baboon (right)

Acacia thorns giving shelter and protection to nests of the weaver bird (left); impala in the bushes (right)

Giraffe, eating acacia (left); a lunch time visitor stirs up the camp (right)

Giraffe (left), somehow walking thru/grazing on acacia thornbushes (center) with impunity; giraffe on the run (right)

The diminutive Thompson's gazelle (note the brown rump; left), and the ever-wary topi antelope (with Tommie in the foreground; right) on the Serengeti plains

Zebra on the Serengeti - grooming (left); bathing (right)

Cape buffalo on the Serengeti; note the oxpicker on the buffalo's shoulder (right)

Lions of the Serengeti: a pride (over 30) resting in the afternoon shade of a sausage tree, with male in the prime shade location (left); a lioness scans the plains (right)

Adolescent female leopard safe, but very unhappy, after taking refuge high in a tree (left); a leopardess and cubs, on the road near the Seronera River (right)

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