Animals

By day, the leopard sleeps on a thick branch above a river, and its hanging tail often gives it away.

Dozens of impalas stand along every track in Kruger, and you will soon stop counting: with about two million in Africa, this russet antelope is the animal you will see most often.

The hippo spends the day in the water, and the best time to see it is late afternoon, when the groups come to life.

Grévy's zebra now lives almost only in Kenya, home to nearly the entire species: 2,465 animals counted in 2024, against 15,000 in the 1970s.

In the thickets beside the track, a male greater kudu watches you pass without moving, its spiral horns rising more than a meter above its head.

In Kenya, the greater flamingo lives on the soda lakes of the Rift Valley, Nakuru above all, where it mingles with the far more numerous lesser flamingos.

The cheetah hunts by day in short grass, often in mid-morning, while the lions sleep.

Ol Pejeta, in Kenya, has more than 165 black rhinos, and you will come across them on the tracks in the early morning.

African wild dogs are always on the move, and a sighting is never certain except in Madikwe, South Africa, where guides follow the packs day after day and you watch them hunt near the...

From June to October, the elephants of Tarangire, in Tanzania, come down to the river by the hundreds.