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Common Seals (Phoca vitulina), Langeness, Schleswig-holstein Wadden Sea National Park We came along banks with Common Seals when 21 young people from 15 European countries participated in a Wadden Sea Climate Training, and got the opportunity to experience first-hand the world’s most important inter-tidal...

By Peter Prokosch

Forest Elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Dzanga Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic Forest elephants in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and Dzanga-Sangha dense forest special reserve in the Central African Republic, Congo Basin. The Dzanga Sangha Reserve is located in the rainforest in the south-western ...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Forest Elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Dzanga Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic The Dzanga Sangha Reserve is located in the rainforest in the south-western part of the Central African Republic. It comprises a total area of more than 4 000 km2 (more than 400 000 hectares). The two central parts of th...

By Peter Prokosch

African Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), Dyer Islands, Western Cape, South Africa The African fur seal, or Brown fur seal is the largest of all fur seal species. It lives around the southern and southwestern coast of Africa from Cape Cross in Nambia and around the Cape of Good Hope to Black Rocks of C...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi), West Coast National Park, South Africa The Blesbok or Blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) is an antelope with a distinctive white face and forehead. The Blesbok is indigenous to South Africa and is found in large numbers in all national parks with open ...

By Peter Prokosch

Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis), Cape point, South Africa The Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis), or Cape Hyrax, is one of the four living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only living species in the genus Procavia. Like all hyraxes, it is a medium-sized (~4 kg) terrestrial ...

By Peter Prokosch

Cape Grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis), Bettys Bay, South Africa A shy, solitary, nocturnal animal that is rarely seen. It is regarded as a problem animal in the Western Cape where they cause extensive damage to grape vines. Motorists travelling in the Grahamstown and Uitenhage areas ...

By Peter Prokosch

White-headed Capuchin (Cebus capucinus), Nationalpark Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica 08, The white-headed capuchin is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. Native to the forests of Central America and the extreme north-western portion of South America, the white-headed cap...

By Peter Prokosch

African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya The African Bush Elephant or African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both the Savanna Elephant and the African Forest Elephant have usually been classified as a...

By Peter Prokosch

Coke's Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya Coke's Hartebeest or Kongoni is an antelope native to Kenya and Tanzania. Distribution is central Tanzania north to central Kenya. Until one hundred years ago it was the most abundant plains antelope, but poaching and...

By Peter Prokosch

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other is the Pygmy Hippopotamus). The hippopot...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Grant's Gazelle (Nanger granti), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya The Grant's gazelle is a species of gazelle. Its populations are distributed from northern Tanzania to southern Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. The Grant’s gazelle is still a common specie...

By Peter Prokosch

Topi (Damaliscus lunatus), Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya The topi has an extensive geographical range with a patchy distribution. This is due to specialization for certain grasslands in arid and savanna biomes.Human hunting and habitat destruction have further isolated their p...

By Peter Prokosch

Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus), Masai Mara, Kenya The Rift Valley forms the eastern distribution limit of the Defassa Waterbucks, which occurs in grassland and open forest and scrub all the way through to West-Africa. The species is a grazer and always found where there...

By Peter Prokosch

Leopard (Panthera pardus), mother and child, Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya he leopard (Panthera pardus) is the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, ...

By Peter Prokosch

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