Whales, Wildlife & Wilderness                                                                                                                                                 Pam & Wayne Osborn

Tanzania - Selous - Animals

Lake Nzelekela

Nile crocodiles abound in these waters. In these images a crocodile has caught a tilapia.

Wild-eyed Elephants

We had been told the Selous elephants would be very skittish because of the poaching and that proved to be true.

 

Our guide found and removed a wire snare nearby.

Hippopotamus

They were known to the ancient Greeks as river horses.

Yellow Baboons

Someone to Impress?

This young yellow baboon has a combretum flower in its mouth.

Vervet Monkeys

Impala

Male Kudu

African Wild Dogs

Also known as hunting dogs or painted dogs.