Travelogue Tanzania 2009
The best pictures – Buffalo

Tanzania - buffalo at a water hole
buffalo at a water hole
Tanzania - a group of buffalos each with finches on their backs
buffalo are walking restaurants for finches
Tanzania - a buffalo with finches on his back
The birds pick the ticks and other insects hidden from the buffalos’ fur. If you look closely you can see the red beaks of the birds. Is it blood or just their natural color?
Tanzania - mom and dad buffalo with a newborn calf
birth of a buffalo calf The father, on the right, watches us closely.
Tanzania - A newborn buffalo baby is on its own four legs for the first time.
the first steps of the buffalo baby
Tanzania - A buffalo cow is running across a gravel road, her calf jumps after it.
Once they are a bit older they have to keep up with mama. That can be quite tough.

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