Tanzania X. Grazers.

Everyone recognizes the big cats, elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes. Zebras and Wildebeests are also distinctive, but the rest of the grazers tend to blend together. I decided to do a post of all these animals. The coat markings, coat color, size of the animal and horn size and shape are the distinguishing differences.

The diversity of animals there is so much greater than we have here, and the numbers of animals are way higher. For us it's just white-tailed deer and moose, and the moose are rarely seen.

Birds tomorrow.


Bushbuck ewe. This one we saw at the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge before our first game drive.

Zebras, on the crater rim.

Wildebeest, one of many, many, many.

Eland, some were more grey in color.

Grant's gazelle.

Thomson's gazelle, the black racing stripe is the distinguishing feature.

Cape buffalo. [With red-billed ox peckers on his back.]

Hartebeest. Less frequently seen where we were.

Impala, male keeps a herd of as many females as he can.

Impala buck with ewe.

Waterbuck, one of only two we saw.

Klipspringer, the rock hopper.

Dik-dik, disappear into the brush.