Mammal Diceros bicornis
Critically endangered and closely guarded. The Ngorongoro Crater is the most reliable place in Tanzania to see one.
Fewer than thirty black rhinos live on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater, watched around the clock by rangers. Seeing one is never guaranteed, but the crater gives you the best chance in Tanzania, usually as a distant shape in the morning before the animals move into cover.
The Serengeti has a small, growing population around the Moru Kopjes. We never approach rhinos closely; a good sighting is one where the animal does not know we are there.
Ngorongoro Crater floor, and the Moru Kopjes area of the Serengeti.
Guide’s tipLook for a dark, hunched shape on the open crater floor and let your guide confirm it with binoculars before you drive closer.
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.
A volcanic caldera with black rhino, lions and big grassland birds.
Vast plains, the Great Migration and big cats all year round.
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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.
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.
Connochaetes taurinus
The Great Migration itself: 1.5 million animals circling the Serengeti, calving in the south each February.
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