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NGORONGORO CRATER { 60 images } Created 1 May 2020

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  • Sunset over the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, with the light reflected from Lake Magadi on the floor of the crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Lake Magadi and numerous streams and pools are at high water in a heavy wet season for Ngorongoro Crater. Portions of the rim mountains are heavily forested with broad leaved evergreens. Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Ngorongoro crater in the rainy season, with dense evergreen forests on portions of the rim mountains, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Low clouds lay in Ngorongoro Crater, with lush green vegetation from recent rains. © David A. Ponton
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  • Trees on the slopes of the rim of Ngorongoro Crater provide shade for a lioness and her cub, © David A. Ponton
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  • African crowned crane in wetland habitat in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • African crowned crane, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • African crowned crane portrait, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Kori bustard on the lush grassland in Ngorongoro Crater, © David A. Ponton
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  • Dramatic lighting in Ngorongoro Crater highlights a male ostrich with two females, © David A. Ponton
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  • Dramatic lighting in Ngorongoro Crater highlights a male ostrich with two females, © David A. Ponton
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  • Dramatic lighting in Ngorongoro Crater highlights a male ostrich with two females, © David A. Ponton
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  • Wildebeest cross stream in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Wildebeest cross stream in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Wildebeest cross stream in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebras tolerate wildebeest charging around and kicking up dust, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra mare with filly pause at an embankment along a stream channel, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra filly looks toward her mother, grazing on the bank of a stream channel, Ngorongoro Crater, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra mare grazes on a stream channel, with her filly showing a perfect mane, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra filly looks toward her mother, grazing on the bank of a stream channel, Ngorongoro Crater, © David A. Ponton
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  • Portrait of young zebra with a lush green background of grassland vegetation in Ngorongoro Crater in the rainy season, © David A. Ponton
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  • Portrait of young zebra with a lush green background of grassland vegetation in Ngorongoro Crater in the rainy season, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra mare with her nearly full-grown filly, grazing the lush grassland of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra mare with her nearly full-grown filly, grazing the lush grassland of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebras group drinking from Lake Magadi, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra up to her belly in water, Lake Magadi, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebra wades into Lake Magadi for a cool luxurious drink, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Close view of zebra drinking, Lake Magadi, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebras drinking from the shallows of Lake Magadi, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Zebras wade into shallows of Lake Magadi to drink, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Water runs off the chin of a zebra that has been drinking, as if its thirst is slaked, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Red-billed teal duck paddles along small stream in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Lesser flamingos fly over a lake in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Lesser flamingos sleeping, beak tucked into back feathers, standing on one leg, Lake Magadi, Ngrongoro Crater, Tanzania
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  • Lesser flamingo wades in the shallows of Lake Magadi, its distinctive filter-feeding bill evident, Ngrongoro Crater, Tanzania,  © David A. Ponton
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  • Lesser flamingo wades in the shallows of Lake Magadi, Ngrongoro Crater, Tanzania,  © David A. Ponton
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  • Lesser flamingo feeding, head submerged in the shallows of Lake Magadi, Ngorngoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Lesser flamingo feeding, head, nearly submerged in the shallows of Lake Magadi, Ngrongoro Crater, Tanzania,  © David A. Ponton
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  • Lesser flamingo feeding, beak submerged in the shallows of Lake Magadi, Ngrongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Hippos keeping cool in a wetland pool in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Hippo mother and baby, day rest pool, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Hippo mother and baby, day rest pool, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Hippo licking another while in day-rest pool in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Hippo with open mouth in day-rest pool, showing teeth that are for defense, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Grey heron preens under its wing while perched on the back of a hippo in a pool, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Grey heron perched on the back of a hippo, the only perch in a wetland pool, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Grey heron hops from one hippo to another, taking advantage of the close-to-the water perches, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • A Tanzania  guide identified this as an augur buzzard but the white eyebrow mark is a strong indication that it is a common buzzard, a migrant from Europe, here perched in a tree in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. [In the old world, the Buteos had the common name of buzzard, where in the New World they are called hawks.] © David A. Ponton
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  • Lions rest at the edge of a lake in Ngorongoro Crater, © David A. Ponton
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  • Black rhinoceros near stream channel in Ngorongoro Crater, with the mountainous slope of the crater rim in the background, Tanzania. © David A. Ponton
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  • African buffalo in the grasslands of Ngorongoro Crater, green with the rainy season, East Africa, © David A. Ponton
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  • Scattered wild animal bones lie on the grassland in Ngorongoro, Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, East Africa
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  • White flowers stand out in the grassland on the bottom of Ngorongoro Crater, © David A. Ponton
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  • Expansive grassland in the bottom of Ngorongoro Crater is green during the rainy seasons, © David A. Ponton
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  • Elephant with large tusks eating lush ground vegetation in yellow-barked acacia (fever tree) forest, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Great white pelicans in flight contrasting with acacia tree, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Forest of Umbrella Thorn (Flat-top Acacia) on the eastern side of Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Fog lies over evergreen forest on the mountains around Ngorongoro Crater during the rainy season, Tanzania, © David A. Ponton
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  • Tree emerges from evergreen forest on the mountains that form the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, with fog, © David A. Ponton
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  • Fog envelops a large tree in the dense evergreen forest that occurs on portions of the rim mountains of Ngorongoro Crater, rainy season, Tanzania
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