Lion pride in Serengeti National Park
Serengeti lions
Lioness
Lioness
Olive Baboon (Papio anubis)
Vervet Monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops)
A dagga boy! Angry caffer Cape Bufalo
Elephants, Tarangire NP
Coke's Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii)
Western White-bearded Wildebeest
Plains Zebra, at the scratching stone
Zebra in the Crater
Serval hunting in the dusk
Serval with prey
Central African Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus massaicus)
Masai Giraffe seen between Manyara and Lake Natron
Nile Crocodile, Grumeti River
Leopard Tortoise
A fat, gnu-eating Nile Crocodile at Grumeti River
Nile Crocodile, Grumeti River
Cheetah, five brothers in Northern Serengeti NP
Tanzanian / East African Cheetah
Painted Dwarf Gecko (Lygodactylus picturatus)
Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia)
Mwanza Flat-headed Rock Agama (Agama mwanzae) - female
Mwanza Flat-headed Rock Agama - male
Thomson's Gazelle, the most numerous gazelle on Serengeti
Scratching
Male East African Bohor Reedbuck
Bohor Reedbuck, Tarangire NP
Topi (Damaliscus topi)
East African Impala
Topi
Coke's Hartebeest
Hippo
Young Hippo yawning
Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale parvula), Tarangire NP
Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), Tarangire NP
The Banded Mongoose family and three Hamerkops (Scopus umbretta), Tarangire NP
Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
Female East African Impala
The smallest mammal seen, the African Grass Rat (Arvicanthis niloticus), I think
Could be Sudan Plated Lizard (Broadleysaurus major)
Rock Hyrax
Maybe Yellow-spotted Rock Hyrax / Bush Hyrax (Heterohyrax brucei), with one brown-spotted white individual
East African Defassa Waterbuck
My first Leopard observed in the wild, a classic Kodak moment ...
Leopard with fresh kill
Dragging its kill into a tree
The elephants did not agree with the leopard, and tried (in vain) to scare if off
Black Rhino in the Ngorongoro Crater. This is the Eastern Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli). It had a historical distribution from South Sudan, Ethiopia, down through Kenya into north-central Tanzania. Today, its range is limited primarily to Tanzania. To support the population in the area, from 1997 several individuals have been brought to the Ngorongoro Crater in an reintroduction effort
Olive Baboon
Patterson's Eland (Tragelaphus oryx pattersonianus)
Roberts' Gazelle (Gazella granti robertsi), found in Northern Tanzania generally west of the Rift Valley (Serengeti, Ngorongoro and a small part of Natron) to southern Kenya in Masai Mara and Loita Plains. The male's horns bend downward
A wolf? Golden Jackal (Canis aureus) in the Ngorongoro Crater. In 2015, this species was actually renamed the African Golden Wolf based on DNA analysis. This species is more closely related to the Grey Wolf than to the Asian Golden Jackal
African Golden Wolf hunting flamingos, Lake Magadi, Ngorongoro Crater
Black-Backed Jackal
Spotted Hyena
African Striped Skink (Trachylepis striata)
Olive Baboon
Serengeti termites
Serengeti Matabele ants (Pachycondyla analis)
Northern Greater Galago (Otolemur garnettii), Zanzibar
Senegal Bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), Lake Eyesi
Kirk's Dik-dik, Tarangire NP
Kirk's Dik-dik, Serengeti
At the hyenas den in the morning dusk, Serengeti NP
Spotted Hyena, Ngorongoro Crater
Below you will find a list of the animals I saw during the safari. I guess there were other species around that I also observed, for example smaller animals like rodents. They will eventually be added to the list as soon as I have time to look closer to all the photos.
Number |
Species |
Latin |
Location |
| 1 | African Elephant | Loxodonta africana | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire |
| 2 | African Wildcat | Felis silvestris lybica | Serengeti |
| 3 | Banded Mongoose | Mungos mungo | Tarangire |
| 4 | Bat species | Microchiroptera | Serengeti |
| 5 | Black Rhino | Diceros bicornis | Ngorongoro Crater |
| 6 | Black-Backed Jackal | Canis mesomelas | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 7 | Blue Monkey | Cercopithecus mitis | Lake Manyara |
| 8 | Bohor Reedbuck | Redunca redunca | Serengeti |
| 9 | Northern Greater Galago | Otolemur garnettii | Zanzibar |
| 10 | Bush Duiker | Sylvicapra grimmia | Serengeti |
| 11 | Bush Rat | Aethomys sp. | Serengeti |
| 12 | Bushpig | Potamochoerus larvatus | Ngorongoro Crater |
| 13 | Cape Buffalo | Syncerus caffer | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 14 | Cape Hare | Lepus capensis | Serengeti |
| 15 | Cheetah | Acinonyx jubatus | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 16 | Coke's Hartebeest | Alcelaphus buselaphus cokei | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 17 | Common Duiker | Sylvicapra grimmia | Serengeti |
| 18 | Defassa Waterbuck | Kobus ellipsiprymnus | Serengeti |
| 19 | Eland | Taurotragus oryx | Tarangire |
| 20 | Golden Jackal / African Golden Wolf | Canis aureus | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 21 | Grants Gazelle | Gazella granti | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 22 | Ground Squirrel | Xerus inauris | Serengeti |
| 23 | Hippo | Hippopotamus amphibius | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara |
| 24 | Impala | Aepyceros melampus | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire |
| 25 | Kirk´s Dik-dik | Madoqua kirkii | Serengeti |
| 26 | Leopard | Panthera pardus | Serengeti |
| 27 | Lesser Bushbaby | Galago moholi | Lake Eyasi |
| 28 | Masai Lion | Panthera leo | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire |
| 29 | Masai Giraffe | Giraffa tippelskirchi | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire |
| 30 | Olive Baboon | Papio ursinus | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara, Tarangire |
| 31 | Plains Zebra | Equus guagga boehmi | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 32 | Rock Hyrax | Procavia capensis | Serengeti |
| 33 | Serval | Leptailurus serval | Serengeti |
| 34 | Slender Mongoose | Herpestes sanguineus | Tarangire |
| 35 | Southern Dwarf Mongoose | Helogale parvula | Tarangire |
| 36 | Spotted Hyena | Crocuta crocuta | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 37 | Springhare | Pedetes capensis | Serengeti |
| 38 | Thomson´s Gazelle | Gazella thompsoni | Serengeti |
| 39 | Topi | Damaliscus topi | Serengeti |
| 40 | Vervet Monkey | Cercopithecus aethiops | Serengeti |
| 41 | Warthog | Phacochoerus aethiopicus | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 42 | Western White-Bearded Wildebeest | Connochaetes taurinus | Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater |
| 43 | Yellow-Spotted Rock Hyrax | Heterohyrax brucei | Serengeti |