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  2. Amboseli National Park - Wikipedia

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    Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Loitoktok District in Kajiado County, Kenya. [1] It is 39,206 ha (392.06 km 2) in size at the core of an 8,000 km 2 (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya- Tanzania border. [2] It harbours 400 species of birds including water birds like pelicans ...

  3. Cynthia Moss - Wikipedia

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    Cynthia Jane Moss (born July 24, 1940) is an American ethologist and conservationist, wildlife researcher, and writer. Her studies have concentrated on the demography, behavior, social organization, and population dynamics of the African elephants of Amboseli. She is the director of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, and is the program ...

  4. Mount Kilimanjaro - Wikipedia

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    Kilimanjaro is the fourth most topographically prominent peak on Earth. It is part of Kilimanjaro National Park and is a major hiking and climbing destination. Because of its shrinking glaciers and ice fields, which are projected to disappear between 2025 and 2035, it has been the subject of many scientific studies.

  5. Maasai Mara - Wikipedia

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    Maasai Mara. Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, [2] the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin.

  6. Amboseli Elephant Research Project - Wikipedia

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    The Amboseli Elephant Research Project is a long-term research project on the ethology of the African elephant, operated by the nonprofit Amboseli Trust for Elephants. The project studies the elephant's social behavior, age structure and population dynamics. [ 1] It is the longest running study of elephant behavior in the wild, [ 2] and has ...

  7. List of national parks of Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Central Island National Park. Chyulu Hills National Park. Hell's Gate National Park. Kisite-Mpunguti Marine National Park. Kora National Park. Lake Nakuru National Park. Malindi Marine National Park. Malka Mari National Park. Masai Mara National Park.

  8. Maasai people - Wikipedia

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    More land was taken to create wildlife reserves and national parks: Amboseli National Park, Nairobi National Park, Maasai Mara, Samburu National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park and Tsavo in Kenya; and Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire [22] and Serengeti National Park in what is now Tanzania.

  9. Masai giraffe - Wikipedia

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    The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi[2]), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive jagged, irregular leaf-like blotches that extend from the ...

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