Eat and be eaten. We all know about the circle of life, but still it is harsh to see a group of lions actually kill and  eat an animal. At that point I remind myself that lions have to feed their children too. The chances of a lion cub reaching adulthood are very small. Feeding them is merely one of the challenges. They are often killed by competing male lions or rivaling predators. Food is...

Do animals show characteristics of human beings, like compassion, love, nurturing and protectiveness? How can mother animals recognize their young ones and how does a young wildebeest manage not to lose it’s mother, while there are thousands of other wildebeest around? The  calves need their mother's constant attention and therefore close contact is essential. The mother animal uses her four...

Normally rain is not what you wish for, when you are on a holiday. But in our case it was more than welcome. The area where the wildebeest prefer to have their young, on the foot of the Ngorongoro Crater, had been unusually dry for the time of the year. Therefor the big herds had wandered off to the central Serengeti, to find permanent water sources. The calving had stopped, awaiting the rain....

Last year, when we visited Amboseli, the Kilimanjaro was only a small, far away, snowy peak, barely showing itself among the clouds in the fading sunlight. Now we are seriously preparing ourselves to climb this nearly 6.000m volcanic giant, the highest mountain in Africa. The walk up there is supposed to be doable, even for a non-experienced climber, like myself. The hard part is the altitude...