As I got near, I heard it crunching and munching, chewing some acacia branches. Kenya Watching these elephants, I came to appreciate why many people see them as almost human. Elephant s use their trunks like hands. A trunk can be used to savagely tear down a tree or give a gentle caress. In fact, here at Robert s Campground, a man bled to death recently after losing his leg to a hippo.
Leopards are also the best tree climbers.
They have to be, to keep their kills safe from lions and hyenas, who would try to steal the meat. They actually exist, and we went looking for them. Nile crocs are so primitive, that scientists call them living fossils. They ve hardly changed since they shared the earth with dinosaurs 130 million years ago. Turkana Desert, Kenya Camels are very well suited for the desert around here.