If you want to see elephants roaming in their natural habitat, Amboseli is the place to go. The park is home to about 1,600 elephants, including 58 families and hundreds of independent adult males. Over the last 40 years, Amboseli’s elephants have been protected from ivory poaching. In many other parts of Africa, poaching has destroyed the social life and family structure of elephants by eliminating older males and females. However, in Amboseli this is not the case. It is the source of data collection on elephants’ social and reproductive patterns. It was wonderful for us to have the opportunity to see these magnificent creatures “up close and personal”.
The tallest of all African animals, the giraffe wanders without a voice, communicating through eye contact and non-verbal gestures. Giraffes feed on the top layer of acacia trees. It is not uncommon to find the “giraffe neck” antelope, called the gerenuk feasting below perched on hind legs and leaving the lower layer for the smallest of all antelope, the dik dik.
Enjoy these beautiful photos of some of our favorite Amboseli animals.
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