Four of the Big Five Animals

Why called the Big Five?
These are the animals in Africa that are referred by game hunters that are difficult to hunter on foot.
Being the Africa Buffalo, Africa Elephant, Lion, Leopard, and Rhino.
I decided to discuss the four of the Big Five that I encountered recently in the Greater Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Leopard; Is an elusive cat that is active during the night but we were lucky enough to spot it being active that morning.
Leopard are also good climber and they can hide their prey on top of the trees, so to keep away any predator from reaching.
Gestation period of the Leopard is 90 to 95 days.

Leopard (Pantera Leo)

 African Elephant; Large land mammal with amazing good memory that can enable them to identify their relative killed for quite a period of time. They have the longest period of gestation that can take it 22 months to give birth to one calf.
They are also huge animals that can forage for about 16 hrs and also good seeds disposal animals, there are seeds that only grow when passing through their digestion system.

African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana)

Lion; Is not only the Big Five is also the Big Cat and only the cats that form pride (walk on groups).
It takes a Lion 108 days to give birth to cubs.
The chores for hunting is mostly done by females and the dominant male work is to protect the territory and first to feed on a prey after the hunting is done as a prize for the protection. Then the last to fed on are the cubs.
They spend time napping after eating that can take 20 hrs a day. They don't worry they the kings of the jungle.

Lion (Pantera Leo)

African Buffalo; They grazers animals that can live on their herds or mostly old males prefer living alone when aged.
They are the most aggresive of all Big Five said by the game hunters and known to kill many game hunters.
Gestation period takes 11.5 months to give birth to a calf.

Buffalo (Syncerus Caffer)

Ngama Hills Nature Walk

 The hill is in the rich diversity ecosystem in the Mara greater  environments around.
These are the flora life  four the Ngama field;
Combretum Mole called in Maasai Olmaroroi, use for making soup with herbals.
Arrow Poison Tree called by in Maa language Olmorijoi which is a poisonous tree.
Wild Camphor or Leleshwa use as a deodorant detergent in the traditional cultures and also use to sleep on when spending in arid or some of the alone.
Green heat tree or Elephant Peppers use to cure malaria or tooth ache and used to brush the teeth.
the leaves are so poison so to give the one but  aside.

Ososian valley in the Maasai Mara.

Ngama Hills Easter nature walk

Education for a Decade

The year 2017, When I turn 28 years old. I also counted a decade since I started practi-cing my passion of being an educator in difference counties in Kenya.

ICT Training

Nature walk for Flora and Fauna

This year I Join my area community initiative called I See Maasai Development Initiative that runs a center in the Maasai Mara ecosystem called Mara Learning and Development Centre to help the community as a trainer in Tourism and ICT to Maasai youth in the area and in other counties.

I also this year has a lot of plans for training and creating awareness on wildlife conservation and training children importance of Wildlife conservation in the Maasai Mara for the better tomorrow.

Leopard on a tree in Maasai Mara.

Mara Learning Academy

Gifts from our Norwegians friends