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MAASAI MARA { 46 images } Created 13 May 2020

Wildlife, landscape, and habitat photographs of Maasai Mara National Preserve, Kenya
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  • Aerial view of East African plains near Maasai Mara National Reserve with low clouds, greenery enhanced in the rainy season, © David A. Ponton
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  • Mara River at high water level during the 1997-98 El Niño event, East Africa
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  • Thompson's gazelles bounding, green grass of the Serengeti Plains, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Thompson's gazelles bounding, green grass of the Serengeti Plains, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Thompson's gazelles bounding, green grass of the Serengeti Plains in the rainy season, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Motion study of impala moving through tall green grass, Serengeiti grassland, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Young cheetah watches a large insect in flight, while laying in lush green grassland of the Serengeti Plains, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Young cheetah sits alertly in lush green grassland of the Serengeti Plains, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Cheetah mother with well-grown cubs sleeps in the lush green grassland of the Serengeti Plains, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Chetah cub rests on its sleeping mother in lush green grassland of the Serengeti Plains, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Southern ground hornbill in grassland, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Kori bustard on termite mound, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle on prey in deep grass, alert to surroundings while eating, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle on prey in deep grass, alert to surroundings while eating, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle perched in tree, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle perched in a tree, scratching its head, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A pair of martial eagles face each other, the larger bird on the left being the female, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A pair of martial eagles in a tree looking intently, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle female of a mated pair pivots on a branch as her mate watches, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle female of a mated pair leans forward in preparation for flight, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle female of a mated pair lands near the male, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Martial eagle female of a mated pair has retrieved prey that she had left on the ground, with both eagles looking keenly in the same direction, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Male martial eagle perched in a tree, showing a partially full crop, and appearing to be ready to go, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A marabou stork  spreads its large, beautifully feathered wings toward the sun for drying, in the company of vultures near a carcass. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A marabou stork flies with a chunk of an impala carcass. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • White-backed vultures spread their wings to the sun to dry out the feathers. These individuals are gathered near a dead impala and are waiting for other scavengers to open up the carcass. Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • White-backed vultures wait for lappet-faced vultures to open up an impala carcass, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Lappet-faced vultures (Nubian vulture) are the most powerful and aggressive of the African vultures, able to tear through the skin to open up a carcass., Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Male African lion lying in tall grass, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Lioness chews on the skull bones of a topi, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Hyena in grassland pauses during scavenging of a lion kill site, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Black-backed jackal in grassland, looking eager to snatch remains from a lion kill, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A hyena and a jackal check for scraps on disturbed ground where a lion pride made a kill, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A hyena carries leg bones of a lion-killed topi that seems to have no flesh remaining, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • A jackal ducks leg bones carried by an uncaring hyena, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Juvenile tawny eagle with its distinctive light plumage is perched close to its darker mother, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Juvenile tawny eagle with its distinctive light plumage is perched close to its darker mother, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Juvenile tawny eagle in flight, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Juvenile tawny eagle in flight, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Juvenile tawny eagle lands next to adult in green grassland of Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Tawny eagle adult (R) with juvenile in green grassland of Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Jackal and tawny eagle on disturbed earth at the site of a lion kill, grassland of Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Horns are almost all that remains of a topi killed by lions and scavenged for a few hours, green grassland of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Mara River at high water level during the 1997-98 El Niño event, East Africa, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Mara River at high water level during the 1997-98 El Niño event, surrounding a mesquite tree with multiple weaver nests, East Africa, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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  • Dark chanting goshawk, perched, , Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, © David A. Ponton
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