Although these eyelashes may look long, they’re actually quite short for an African elephant. Sometimes you see elephants with four inch long lashes. They act as sunshades to block out the harsh light, and also dust, of the African savannah. This one was photographed in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

There were three baby gorillas in the troop of twenty three that we saw in the Ugandan jungle. The two other babies were running around, swinging from vines and playing when this one settled into its mother’s arms to take a nap.

Certainly, the crested cranes of eastern Africa are among the finest looking of all the cranes. This one was photographed on an island in the middle of Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda. They are also sometimes called crowned cranes, or crested crowned cranes.

I posted a similar photo a few years ago, but was recently going through my files and I was able to get a cleaner image of these three African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The sun had been down for a while when I took this shot in the last possible light of the day. In the background you can see the euphorbia candelabrum trees that are typical of the Ugandan savannah.

Just a zebra minding its business. There are three different kinds of zebra in Africa, the mountain zebra, Grevy’s zebra and plains zebra. This guy is a Burchell’s zebra which is a subspecies of the plains zebra. You never know when you might need this valuable information. This photo was taken in Mburro National Park in Uganda.

A quick break from Brazil to head back to Uganda. This was one of the four babies in the troop  of twenty three mountain gorillas we saw in Bwindi National Park.

I usually don’t take pictures of the places that I stay at, but this particular lodge was very cool. We were in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The two story huts had great balconies off the backside and amazing views out across the plains. You can’t tell from this picture, but elephants were walking around down there in the valley below.

It’s been a while since I posted a gorilla so here’s another one from Bwindi National Park in Uganda. This baby was crawling all over its mother’s back, swinging from vines and playing with one of the other two babies in the troop.

In Entebbe, Uganda, vervet monkeys are so common, they’re kind of like squirrels are here. We were in a city park when we came across a troop of them playing and eating in a stand of bamboo. You might recall an earlier shot of a vervet that I sent a while back featuring the spectacular blue of the adult males.

After several days of failing to get any decent views of chimpanzees, we finally came across a tree in a clearing by a river that had about 8 of them getting ready for nightfall. This mother and baby were pretty high up in the tree. I used my longest lens and cropped in quite a bit.