The wildlife of Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya

A short film made with TG in 2010 in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.

The park is famous for the large population of flamingos that gather on the lake (see my other film on birdlife) but also because it provides sanctuary to both black and white rhino.

There were a few filming firsts for me on this trip – a male lion in a tree, rhino fighting, dung beetles doing their stuff and me playing hide and seek with baboons. A stand out moment was witnessing for the first time, and filming, male Rothschild’s giraffe “necking”. This is a ritual among male bull giraffes where they swing their heads in wide arches to try to hit one another with the hard bony ossicles - bumps - on the tops of their heads.

This footage was captured three years before my hero the great DA included similar in the series Africa for the BBC ☺

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