I have learnt a lot of fairy tales during my regular trips to the famous tourist destinations in Kenya including Masai Mara.
Wild animals are very humble creatures and quite interesting to watch as they about their daily chores of looking for food.
Each category has its own way of escaping predators, looking for daily bread, defending and bringing up their young ones, which in turn results to the general life survival strategy.
Masai Mara is one of the most frequently visited parks in Kenya with the highest chances to view elephants, lions, cheetahs, buffalos, leopards and rhinos, both black and white.
Most of these animals mix so well, that you might think they are members of the same family.
In fact other animals and birds depend on others for food and survival.
The cattle egrets neither feed on grass nor buffalo dung, but you will always see them walking side by side like great friends.
The buffalos help them locate grasshoppers and other flying insects which is a fundamental part of their meal.
Grazers and browsers find their food without too much of a hassle unlike predators, except that they have to keep their heads up in between their feeding lest they fall a prey.
Antelopes are best known for this, lifting their heads every now and then to sniff the air for any sense of danger.
The very first time I spotted an impala bounding away with spectacular leaps from side to side and kicking their hind legs in the air, I thought it was a way of show-off to a lion that could not match it in the race.
Little did I know that this is a typical characteristic that helps the impala release some scent from its glands on their fetlocks into the air.
This helps to pass the message to fellow impalas that there is danger in their surroundings.
When I was in my late teen age, my late grandfather advised me never to eat any hot food prior to my wizard tracking mission.
He told me that the wizards are so sensitive to smell, that they would easily notice a human being in a hide-out! So, eating a cold food would slow down the rate of digestion and keep the temperatures as low as possible.
This would increase the chances of catching one, especially approaching from downwind.
However, popular to this famous belief, notorious predators like cheetahs and lions don't consider the wind direction when hunting.
They try to stalk to as close as possible and any slight realization of them will scatter the whole heard.
This reaction causes the predators to be more aggressive and enhances a great chase and a remarkable Masai Mara adventure safari.
Wild animals are very humble creatures and quite interesting to watch as they about their daily chores of looking for food.
Each category has its own way of escaping predators, looking for daily bread, defending and bringing up their young ones, which in turn results to the general life survival strategy.
Masai Mara is one of the most frequently visited parks in Kenya with the highest chances to view elephants, lions, cheetahs, buffalos, leopards and rhinos, both black and white.
Most of these animals mix so well, that you might think they are members of the same family.
In fact other animals and birds depend on others for food and survival.
The cattle egrets neither feed on grass nor buffalo dung, but you will always see them walking side by side like great friends.
The buffalos help them locate grasshoppers and other flying insects which is a fundamental part of their meal.
Grazers and browsers find their food without too much of a hassle unlike predators, except that they have to keep their heads up in between their feeding lest they fall a prey.
Antelopes are best known for this, lifting their heads every now and then to sniff the air for any sense of danger.
The very first time I spotted an impala bounding away with spectacular leaps from side to side and kicking their hind legs in the air, I thought it was a way of show-off to a lion that could not match it in the race.
Little did I know that this is a typical characteristic that helps the impala release some scent from its glands on their fetlocks into the air.
This helps to pass the message to fellow impalas that there is danger in their surroundings.
When I was in my late teen age, my late grandfather advised me never to eat any hot food prior to my wizard tracking mission.
He told me that the wizards are so sensitive to smell, that they would easily notice a human being in a hide-out! So, eating a cold food would slow down the rate of digestion and keep the temperatures as low as possible.
This would increase the chances of catching one, especially approaching from downwind.
However, popular to this famous belief, notorious predators like cheetahs and lions don't consider the wind direction when hunting.
They try to stalk to as close as possible and any slight realization of them will scatter the whole heard.
This reaction causes the predators to be more aggressive and enhances a great chase and a remarkable Masai Mara adventure safari.