|   Wildlife

Safari Animal Calls with the Guides in Tanzania

Lions don’t just roar. And forget what you’ve heard about laughing hyenas. It’s more common for these nocturnal predators to m...

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  |   Wildlife

5 Facts for World Lion Day

The king of the jungle is largely considered the most iconic creature in Africa. It’s the biggest cat on the continent, the Se...

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  |   Stories About/From Our Guests, Wildlife

Our Guests’ Favorite Moments with East Africa’s Wildlife

They came within inches of gorillas, watched the world’s fastest cat chase down its prey and saw the king of the jungle face of...

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  |   Wildlife

Africa’s Endangered Species by the Numbers

Around 100 years ago, wildlife in Africa flooded the plains in droves. Hundreds of thousands of rhinos, and lions and millions ...

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  |   A Safari Category List, Wildlife

Which African Countries Have Safaris?

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania A safari is the trip of a lifetime, and dozens of decisions go into making it unforgettable. Perhap...

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  |   A Safari Category List, Wildlife

5 Things You Can Learn From Nat Geo WILD’s Big Cat Week

When you love animals as much as we do, Nat Geo WILD’s Big Cat week is the most wonderful time of the year. This week, Nat Geo ...

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  |   A Safari Category List, About/By Thomson Staff

A Typical Day on Safari: Nicole’s Favorite Memory of her Trip

Nicole points to a pride of lions during a wildlife drive through Serengeti National Park In a way, safari is impossible to sum...

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  |   A Safari Category List, Wildlife

How Lions Are Just Like Your Pet Cat

“Rawr” by Flickr user kahumphrey licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 They may be top of the food chain, but underneath the fearsome ro...

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  |   People

Trading Lions for Pride: The Maasai Olympics

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  |   Wildlife

Toothsome Tanzania: The Deadliest Bites on Safari

We’ve probably all claimed to be “fighting tooth and nail” for something important, but in the wild, when the something import...

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  |   Wildlife

The Mane Event: The Purpose of Lion Manes

Illustrators with an anthropomorphic bent have played them up as nature’s crown on her chosen king of the beasts, and Charles ...

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  |   A Safari Category List, Wildlife

Hide-and-Go-Birth: The Sneaky Pregnancy of a Lioness

We’ve all heard of someone trying to hide a pregnancy; the entire period-drama genre would implode without the trope. But usual...

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  |   A Safari Category List, Wildlife

How The Big Five Made The Cut

We tell all our guests to keep an eye out for the “big five” species—lion, rhinoceros, leopard, cape buffalo, and elephant—beca...

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  |   Folklore

Swahili Story-Time: The Trapper, The Lion, and The Hare

By Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel (1660 – 1700) (Details of artist on Google Art Project) [Public domain or Public domain], via...

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  |   A Safari Category List, People

Can Wildlife and People Live in Harmony?

Over the past decade, lion expert and conservationist, Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld, has researched declining lion populations througho...

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  |   A Safari Category List, Wildlife

See “African Cats” and Help Save the Savanna

Have you seen Disneynature’s African Cats yet?  Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill, director of the remarkable documentary E...

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