Kenya animals

By Pictures of African animals

on September 20, 2010

Kenya animals

Wildlife in Kenya is not confined to the parks and reserves although it is generally more abundant in such areas. Thus, although safaris tend to be routed through the reserves, a visitor will often see plenty of wildlife outside.
Antelopes come large and small- eland is the largest weighing around 600 kg, a hundred times the weight of the dainty dikdik. Wildebeest, among the most numerous of antelopes, share their grazing with zebra and are naturally gregarious but the smaller antelopes such as the suni, oribi and duiker are rarely found in any numbers.
Apart from antelopes there are carnivores- leopard, lion, cheetah, wild dog, and hyena ,Lion and Leopard are rarely found making killing in daylight. Jackals are also predators particularly the beautiful golden-backed jackals are the predators which, rarely scavenges. Even the most common jackal, the black-backed, finds only one third of its food from scavenging.
The cape buffalo also called African buffalo, judged by most hunters to be the most dangerous of big game, inhabits grassland where there is preferably thick cover and swamp in which to lie up, but like the elephant it is also adapted to life in dense and cold forest. Another one is the african elephant who is larger than the Asian elephant, and has large ears. Just like the rhinoceros, it is unfortunately hunted for its tusks, it is a protected species.
Kenya, a great place to enjoy wildlife safari with natural beauty and wildlife.