The Masai Mara is world famous for its exceptional predator density and for hosting the Great Migration, one of nature's most dramatic spectacles. It is home to the Big Five, lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhinoceros, alongside popular species like zebra, giraffe, hyena, cheetah, wildebeest,
Located in southwestern Kenya along the Great Rift Valley, bordering Tanzania's Serengeti plains, the Masai Mara National Reserve is widely regarded as Africa's greatest wildlife reserve. It began as a small wildlife sanctuary covering about 520 square kilometres in 1961, later expanded, and was declared a national game reserve in 1974. Today it stretches across 1,510 square kilometres and rises 1,500 to 2,170 metres above sea level, forming the northern extension of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. The reserve is named after the Maasai people, the area's ancestral inhabitants, and the Maa word "mara," meaning spotted, a reference to the scattered trees dotting the landscape. It is surrounded by more than 30 community conservancies covering an additional 1,500 square kilometres, some of which support wildlife densities that rival or exceed those inside the reserve itself.
Lion, Leopard, African elephant, Cape buffalo, Black rhinoceros, Cheetah, Spotted hyena, Zebra, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Eland, Thomson's gazelle, Serval cat, Bat-eared fox, Topi, Impala, Warthog, Hippopotamus, Nile crocodile, Jackal
Secretary bird, Martial eagle, Lappet-faced vulture, Kori bustard, Ostrich, Grey crowned crane, Lilac-breasted roller, African fish eagle, Saddle-billed stork, Marabou stork, Southern ground hornbill, Egyptian goose, Black-bellied bustard, Long-crested eagle, Rufous-bellied heron, Yellow-throated sandgrouse, Ross's turaco, Hildebrandt's starling, Superb starling, Von der Decken's hornbill
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