Mara Musiara Baboons and Elephants.

 Olive /Savanna Baboons(Papio cynocephalus) Musiara Marsh

On the 31st of July,we found these baboons in the marsh near to our camp grooming each other ,a social behaviour that baboons must displayed to strengthen the bond amongst themselves in their in their family(troop),when we get in here there was only one  big male on this termite mound,it was very interesting to watch young boys coming in trying to groom the dad,only one was brave to do this but others were shy,and in about five minutes both old and young girls came grooming the dominant male(the bigger one in the photo facing the other siede!),they younger ones later on went cleaning/grooming the adults....................

African Elephants(Loxodanta Africana) Musiara Marsh
After watching a troop of baboon,we drove through gazelles,eland,impalas,waterbucks,reedbucks,zebras,old bull buffalos we found this(above) family of Elephants,no bull was present here,Musiara marsh is famous for holding bigger amount of animal species,one day i counted 12 mammal species around our safari landrover.Elephants social organisation is Matriarchal,that is any herd is headed by an old female called called matriarch who leads the family to better grazing/browsing fields or to look for water or making any other decision,males only come in to check for the female s on oestrus(sexually receptive),young bulls in the family when they get to the age of between 12 and 15 years they are kicked out nad they become solitary on form boys club!.When we found this family of about 9 elephants they were all Scattered,only that this female who she was not the matriarch was with three calves of different ages,the matriarch was about 5OO metres from them and we knew that she was in touch with them through infrasounds,sounds that are beyond human hearing,may be one of the calves above was hers,and we kept a space in between them,we left them feeding on the marsh reeds,they spend more than 18 hours grazing and browsing because they have very poor digestive system,a fruit of pepper park tree(warbugia ugandensis)can pass through the system un touched!