4121 Impalas vying for supremacy

4122 Small herds of wildebeestes are dispersed all over the conservancies

4123 Male impalas are territorial much of the time

4124 Cheetah mother and cub about to have dinner, Their usual prey are impalas and gazelles

4125 Grant's gazelle

4126 Cheetahs are becoming rare in much of their range but these conservancies have relatively high numbers

4127 A slender mongoose. Solitary and bigger than a dwarf mongoose and typically has an upturned tip to its tail

4128 Coke's hartebeestes are known as kongoni in Swahili and are often seen in twos

4129 There are eight subspecies of hartebeeste. In the Mara they are called Coke's hartebeeste

4130 A big family to feed needs a big kill like this eland

4131 Cubs practise their throat throttle on the carcass

4132 The cubs spend a lot of time playing and pouncing on each other

4133 Even though it has a dark stripe this is a Grant's gazelle. The presence of a white tick mark on its buttock confirms it

4134 Impala ram and his harem with Thompson's and Grant's gazelles in the foreground

4135 Grant's gazelle with no dark sidestripe

4136 Spotted hyaena

4137 Spotted hyaenas and lions compete with each other for food. Hyaenas a mainly hunters not scavengers

4138 Vervet monkeys prefer lightly wooded riverine areas, especially with acacia trees

4139 Female waterbuck like to hide in the thick riverine unergrowth

4140 De Fassa waterbuck with young

4141 Vervets feed on seeds, flowers, foliage, gum and fruits. They love figs and marulas

4142 One cheetah can eat up to fourteen kilograms of meat at a single sitting

4143 Naivasha dik dik, the local subspecies of Kirk's dik dik

4144 Almost fully grown cubs playing