Amboseli

Amboseli

Amboseli National Park, Kenya 2017 50 photos

Beneath Kilimanjaro's cloud-capped dome, Amboseli's elephants move between dusty lake-bed plains and emerald marshes. Mud-caked giants feeding belly-deep among cattle egrets, giraffes splaying to drink, zebra and wildebeest sharing the channels, and dust devils spinning across the horizon.

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Zebra and wildebeest herd filing along a marsh bank, dry plains beyond Four plains zebras walking away along a channel, one glancing back Zebras drinking at a blue channel while eland and wildebeest graze behind African elephant belly-deep in marsh grass, curling trunk to mouth Zebras and wildebeest grazing a green marsh edge under vast hazy plains Lone plains zebra grazing head-down on a mound beside marsh water Zebra and wildebeest graze a marsh channel below a distant dust devil Thomson's gazelles and wildebeest scattered across hazy green marsh flats White-bearded wildebeest in full side profile crossing sunlit short grass Mixed herds grazing the dry lake-bed edge as twin dust devils rise Lone Thomson's gazelle grazing beneath a towering pink dust devil Masai giraffe splaying its forelegs to drink at a marsh edge Masai giraffe splays forelegs to drink at marsh edge, juvenile watching Elephant mother and young calf striding across dusty lake-bed plain Elephant calf head in profile framed beneath mother's crossed tusks Dust-colored young elephant facing camera, ears flared, on red track Mud-slicked elephant cow and calf from behind in green marsh, egret nearby Mud-caked elephant cow follows calf through marsh grass, cattle egret trailing Mud-caked African elephant striding in full profile across green marsh edge Elephant wading belly-deep in marsh grass with two cattle egrets foraging Cape buffalo coated head-to-horn in wet mud, wallowing and staring forward Elephant feeding chest-deep in swamp as a swallow skims past its back Close-up of elephant curling trunk to graze, cattle egret at its flank Elephant grazing among reflective water channels threading the Amboseli marsh Mud-coated elephant feeding chest-deep in green marsh beside cattle egret Elephant curling trunkful of marsh grass to its mouth, egret foraging nearby Close-up of mud-caked elephant head, trunk draped over stained tusk Elephant in profile looping trunk into bush, browsing at dusk Elephant facing camera, trunk resting between crossed stained tusks Tusker elephant feeding in scrub beneath Mount Kilimanjaro summit Elephant family raising trunks, cattle egret perched on matriarch's back Elephant family walking past zebras and foal on hazy golden savanna Elephant herd trekking beneath snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro Three elephants grazing green marshland under brooding storm clouds Panorama of long-tusked elephants and calf feeding through flooded marsh Elephant cow and calf grazing marsh among attending cattle egrets Thomson's gazelle grazing head-down at the green edge of a marsh Young elephant curling trunk around a thorny acacia branch while browsing Tusked elephant bull striding directly toward the camera across dry plain Mud-caked elephant facing camera with one ear fanned dramatically wide Close-up of an elephant's lashed eye amid deeply wrinkled sunlit hide Elephant's curled lip gripping a chewed green bolus, seen from behind African elephant stretching trunk high to strip a broken acacia branch Elephant curling trunk to mouth while browsing behind thorny acacia tangle Young elephant facing camera with ears flared above thorn scrub Elephant in profile grasping acacia twigs with a tightly curled trunk Elephant pushing through fallen acacia branches beside a weathered dead log Elephant mother shielding her small calf on dry plains, distant hills beyond Elephant cow with young calf walking past a fallen acacia, Amboseli Lone elephant calf crossing dusty lake-bed plain below distant hills