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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] The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of ...

  3. 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.

  4. Echo (elephant) - Wikipedia

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    Died. May 3, 2009. (2009-05-03) (aged 63–64) Echo was an African bush elephant matriarch who was studied for over 30 years by ethologist Cynthia Moss, beginning in 1973, [1] and was the subject of several books and films. She was the first subject of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, the longest-running study of a land mammal.

  5. Maasai Mara - Wikipedia

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    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 Airport - Wikipedia

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    Amboseli Airport is in Kajiado County, in Amboseli National Park, in south-central Kenya, close to the international border with the Republic of Tanzania . It is approximately 156 kilometres (97 mi), by air, south of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the country's largest civilian airport. [1] The geographic coordinates of Amboseli Airport ...

  7. Joyce Poole - Wikipedia

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    At the age of six while on safari in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, their car was charged by a bull elephant. This made an impression on her. In 1966, when she was 11 years old, she went to one of primatologist Jane Goodall 's lectures on her research with chimpanzees, and made a determination to become an animal behavior researcher.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Amboseli Baboon Research Project - Wikipedia

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    The Amboseli Baboon Project [1] is a long-term, individual-based research project on yellow baboons ( Papio cynocephalus) in the Amboseli basin of southern Kenya. Founded in 1971, it is one of the longest-running studies of a wild primate in the world. Research at the Amboseli Baboon Project centers on processes at the individual, group, and ...

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