Savuti Wildlife

While we were at Savuti we saw a variety of wildlife. It’s pretty incredible how many animals live in the bush. From the large mammals down to the beautiful birds and some really incredible plants and trees. This post shows a few of those that we saw.

A Cape buffalo walking through a watering hole. He actually turned and charged our truck right after this picture.

Next we saw what’s called a “Rank of Impalas” feeding next to a wetland.

Then there’s these beautiful trees reflecting off the water.

We saw a lot of warthogs, who are so ugly that they’re cute. Especially when they run away with their tails straight up in the air.

Here are some Guinea fowl. A group they are called a “Confusion of Guinea fowl”, which aptly describes their manic behavior. Such beautiful birds. Jeff was thinking “dinner”.

My favorite name, a “Dazzle of Zebra”. And they are truly dazzling up close.

We think this is a coppery-tailed coucal, which is a species of cuckoo found in Botswana.

This picture is a three-for-one. You have Nile crocodile lying by the water, with Egyptian geese behind then forming a conga line, and then way in the back a few lechwe, which are local deer.

This lone elephant looked like it was closely examining our safari truck. We saw this “look” many times, it was as though they were trying to decide whether to charge the truck or not.

Then we have a red-billed hornbill, which is really a beautiful bird.

Then lastly we saw many lilac-breasted roller.

Unfortunately we never did see a silver-crested sandal-footed boobie. Maybe on our next trip.