The Lion

King of the jungle and a member of the Big Five. Live in prides (a handful of males and up to a dozen females and young), are genrally lazy & spend much of the time sleeping.

Facts About Lions

• A lion chasing down a prey can run the length of a football field in 6 seconds!
• More than half of lion's diet is made up of scavenged food
• Lions are exceptional within the cat family because male and females are distictly different in appearance
• Lions have a tuft of dar hair at the tip of theiur tails, in tall grass, this helps them communicate with other lions in their pride
• Lions eyes have a specialized horizontal steak of nerve cells that helps them focus better on the movement of prey across a plain
• The lions roar is amplified by the hyoid bone, which is incompletely ossified in the throat

The Elephant

Largest and heaviest living land mammal, live in families and gather in herds for migration. Elephants have powerful trunk and need much food so can be destructive to shrubs and trees.

Elephants are the largest land animals alive today and may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth, an elephant's calf weigh 120 kg (265 lb). Elephants are famed for their exceptional memory and high intelligence.

Facts about Elephants

• An elephant can smell water three miles away
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
• Did you know that elaphant's teeth can weight as much as nine pounds each? Amazing!
• African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with
• An adult African elephant's trunk is about seven feet (two meters) long! It's actually an elongated nose and upper lip
• Like most noses, trunks are for smelling. But they're also for touching and grasping
• When an elephant drinks, it sucks as much as 2 gallons (7.5 liters) of water into its trunk at a time. Then it curls its trunk under, sticks the tip of its trunk into its mouth, and blows. Out comes the water, right down the elephant's throat
• Since African elephants live where the sun is usually blazing hot, they use their trunks to help them keep cool. First they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. Then they often follow that with a sprinkling of dust to create a protective layer of dirt on their skin, this layer of dust works as a sunscreen lotion for elephants
• Elephants pick up and spray dust the same way they do water-with their trunks
• Elephants also use their trunks as snorkels when they wade in deep water. An elephant's trunk is controlled by many muscles. Two fingerlike parts on the tip of the trunk allow the elephant to perform delicate maneuvers such as picking a berry from the ground or plucking a single leaf off a tree
• The elephant can also use its trunk to grasp an entire tree branch and pull it down to its mouth
• When an elephant gets a whiff of something interesting, it sniffs the air with its trunk raised up like a submarine periscope. If threatened, an elephant will also use its trunk to make loud trumpeting noises as a warning
• Elephants are social creatures. They sometimes "hug" by wrapping their trunks together in displays of greeting and affection. Elephants also use their trunks to help lift or nudge an elephant calf over an obstacle, to rescue a fellow elephant stuck in mud, or to gently raise a newborn elephant to its feet. And just as a human baby sucks its thumb, an elephant calf often "sucks its trunk" for comfort

The Bufallo

Reputed to be the most dangerous animals as far as humans are concerned.

The Rhino

Come and watch Rhinos right here in Kenya. A Rhinos are quiet animals that will impress you with not only their size but also their interesting ways. They are a sight to behold especially as the birds perch on their backs as they have their love battles.

Rhinos have poor eye-sight but good sense of smell and hearing, hence relies mainly on smell and sound. Rhinos have 2 sharp horns which have made them endangered species as poachers kill and remove the horns for sale in the black market.

In case there is a fire in the bush, trust the rhinos to put it out! Hence sometime they are refered to as the "Bush Fire Fighters"

The Leopard

Average shoulder height: Males - 60 to 70cm; Females - 55 to 65cm
Weight: Males - 35 to 65kg ; Females - 28 to 58kg
Gestation period: 106 days
Life expectancy: Leopards in the wild live for 15 to 20 yrs

Leopard belongs to the cat family and have become very rare & when found are often on trees where they like to carry & store their prey.

The leopard's underparts are white with black spots. The long tail is also white underneath with rosettes on top. No two leopards have the same markings or color. In fact each leopard's spots are unique, similar to human fingerprints.

Other distinguishing features of this spectacular cat are the large head, powerful neck and shoulders, and short, muscular limbs.

Adult leopards are solitary and territorial and will only associate long enough to mate. Occupation of a territory is advertised by marking with urine and faeces and clawing the bark of trees.