Mammal Lycaon pictus
Africa’s most endangered large carnivore. Ruaha is one of the last strongholds, and sightings there are a privilege.
Painted wolf, painted dog, wild dog: whichever name you use, this is one of the rarest sightings in Tanzania. Packs range over huge areas, hunt at dawn and dusk, and share every kill with the pups and the old.
Ruaha holds one of the most important populations in East Africa, and the denning months are the best chance to see them. In the north, packs occasionally appear in Tarangire and the Serengeti, but never predictably.
Ruaha National Park; occasional packs pass through Tarangire.
Guide’s tipA denning pack returns to the same place every day. If one is known, we plan the morning around it.
Sightings are never guaranteed: these are wild animals in wild places. What we can promise is a guide who knows where to look.
Destinations
The parks and reserves where our guides look for it, each with its own best season and safaris.
Huge elephant herds, ancient baobabs and Tanzania’s endemic birds.
Tanzania’s largest park: big predators, baobab plains and 570+ bird species.
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Loxodonta africana
Tarangire’s big herds are the classic sight: families drifting between baobabs to the river in the dry season.
Panthera leo
The Serengeti holds one of the largest lion populations left in Africa. Prides of twenty are not unusual.
Panthera pardus
Secretive and beautiful. The Seronera valley’s sausage trees are the best place in Africa to find one by day.
Acinonyx jubatus
Built for the short grass plains. Watch one scan from a termite mound in the southern Serengeti.
Diceros bicornis
Critically endangered and closely guarded. The Ngorongoro Crater is the most reliable place in Tanzania to see one.
Syncerus caffer
The Big Five’s heavyweight. Herds of several hundred are a daily sight in Arusha National Park and the crater.
Giraffa tippelskirchi
Tanzania’s national animal, with jagged star-shaped patches. Common almost everywhere except inside the crater.
Equus quagga
The migration’s other half. Hundreds of thousands of zebra move with the wildebeest across the Serengeti.
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