Pictures of fauna [last update 2011-12-25]

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Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2012. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.

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Lion approaching a wildebeest herd (Kenya) Male Defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) chewing on grass (Kenya) Lion cubs (Tanzania) African elephant (Loxodonta africana) covering its eyes with its trunk (Kenya) Juvenile African puff adder (Bitis arietans) (Tanzania) Young female lion (Tanzania) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Kenya) Pair of vervet monkeys standing on rear legs (Tanzania) Infant elephant (Kenya) Black Colobus monkey (Colobus angolensis) (Kenya) African elephants wading in a marsh (Tanzania) African Pygmy-falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) (Tanzania) Blue; orange; and green beetle on Mt. Kenya (Kenya) African elephant (Tanzania) Female lion with wildebeest kill (Tanzania) Spotted hyena (Kenya) Leaping Gray-footed Chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) Plains zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) (Tanzania) Maasai Mara sunset width buffalo (Kenya) Cape buffalo with a Red-billed Oxpecker (Tanzania) Tiny magenta-colored spider (Kenya) Male ostrich defending chicks (Tanzania) Hildebrandt's Starling (Lamprotornis hildebrandti) collecting grass (Tanzania) Helmeted guineafowl (Kenya) Pair of plains zebra (Kenya) Aerial view of large herd of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Okavango delta African Wattled Plover (Vanellus senegallus) (Kenya) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Kenya) Bohor Reedbuck doe (Kenya) Frog (Kenya) Madagascar giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis) Elephants crossing a river bed (Tanzania) Sykes's Monkey; Cercopithecus albogularis (Kenya) Female lion with wildebeest kill (Tanzania) Plains zebra (Equus quagga) Sunbird (Kenya) Ruppell's Vultures (Gyps rueppelli) (Kenya) Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) feeding on a lion kill (Tanzania) Bohor Reedbuck doe licking her ankle (Kenya) Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) on a dirt road (Tanzania) Black Kite (Milvus migrans) (Tanzania) Impala (Aepyceros melampus ) (Kenya) Elephants on a sandy riverbed (Tanzania) Little Bee-eater {Merops pusillus} (Tanzania) Female Southern Tree Hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) with baby (Kenya) Kirk's Dik-dik (Madoqua kirkii) (Tanzania) Male Common Impala (Aepyceros melampus melampus) next to the Blue wildebeest or gnu (Connochaetes taurinus) Warthog (Kenya) Young female lion (Tanzania) Orphaned elephant drinking milk at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (Kenya) Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) (Tanzania) Water buffalo (Kenya) Southern Tree Hyrax with baby (Kenya) White-headed Vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) (Tanzania) Suni (Neotragus moschatus) on Mt. Kenya (Kenya) Trioceros sternfeldi chameleon (Tanzania) Infant elephant (Kenya) Aerial view of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) wading in Okavango delta Vietnamese Mossy Frog (Theloderma corticale) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) - headshot (Kenya) African elephants (Loxodonta africana) drinking in the Chobe River Malachite kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) with tiny fish in its mouth in Chobe National Park Line of Wildebeest; part of their famous migration (Kenya) Baby vervet monkey (Tanzania) Group of Little Grebe; Tachybaptus ruficollis (Kenya) Red wasp (Kenya) Yellow-throated longclaw (Macronyx croceus) (Kenya) Blue morpho butterfly Leatherback sea turtle laying eggs on the beach Mother lion sleeping with cubs (Kenya) Masai or Kilimanjaro Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) (Tanzania) Male ostrich defending chicks (Tanzania) African elephant (Loxodonta africana) (Kenya) Green Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons) Scrube hare (Lepus saxatilis) (Kenya) Lion cub (Tanzania) Tanzania blue day gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi) Hippopotami (Kenya) Tanzania blue gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi) Arrow-marked Babbler (Turdoides jardineii) (Kenya) Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) with fish in Chobe National Park Klemmer's Yellow-headed Day Gecko (Phelsuma klemmeri) Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) (Tanzania) Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) (Tanzania) Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) (Kenya) Warthog (Kenya) fauna: Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15 | Page 16 | Page 17 | Page 18 | Page 19 | Page 20 | Page 21 | Page 22