Antylopy i gazele – Antelopes and gazelles

Wszystkie do tej pory wspomniane zwierzeta tak naprawde stanowily ulamek wsrod antylop i gazel, ktorych ilosci nie dalo sie zliczyc! Najwieksze stada formowaly antylopu gnu, ktore to w ramach wielkiej migracji zwierzat przemierzaja co rok olbrzymie odleglosci w poszukiwaniu zywnosci. Oprocz nich udalo nam sie uwiecznic impale, buszboki, elandy, koby sniade, topi i kongoni.

All the animals we have already mentioned added up to only a friction amongst impossible to count number of all sort of antelopes and gazelles! The biggest herds were these of wildebeest, which as a part of the great migration, are travelling huge distances in the search of food every year. Apart from them we managed to catch with the camera Impalas, Bushbucks, Elands, Waterbucks, Topi and Coke’s Hartebeest.

Antylopa topi - Topi Antelope


Kongoni - Cooke's Hartebeest



Kob sniady - Waterbuck




Impala



Buszbok - Bushbuck



Elandy - Eland Antelopes



Antylopy gnu - Wildebeest

Hipopotamy – Hippos

Tuz na obrzezach Keekorok Lodge w parku narodowym Masai Mara rezydowalo stado parudziesieciu sztuk hipopotamow. W ciagu dnia spaly one w wodzie, a noca wychodzily na lad, by pasc sie na trawie! Te potezne zwierzeta – na ladzie mniejsze tylko od slonia i nosorozca bialego – pomimo swojej masywnej budowy i krotkich nog, na niewielkich dystansach potrafia przescignac czlowieka! Co ciekawe, najblizszymi krewnymi hipopotamow sa wieloryby i morswiny. Hipopotamy sa bardzo agresywne!

Just outside Keekorok Lodge in Masai Mara national park its residence had a group of few dozens of hippopotamus. They slept in the water during the day, and were getting outside at night to graze on grass! These huge animals – on the land smaller only than elephants and white rhino - regardless their physical built and short legs can outrun human over short distances! What is interesting, their closest relatives are whales and porpoises! Hippos are very aggressive!

Hiena – Hyena

Hiena cetkowana, zwana rowniez ‘smiejaca sie’, jest najwiekszym z gatunkow obecnie zyjacych na swiecie hien. Choc potrafia one laczyc sie w stada liczace paredziesiat osobnikow, my nie widzielismy wiecej niz dwoch na raz. Ta, ktora nagralismy, udalo nam sie zlapac w dosyc intymnej sytuacji :).

Spotted Hyena, also known as ‘laughing’, is the biggest one from the species of the hyena in the present world. However they live in clans which can consist of up to several dozens of individuals, we did not see more than two at the time. The one in the movie below was caught by us in a quite inconvenient situation :).