Kenya

Kenya in pictures

Flag, landscapes, landmarks and wildlife you can meet in the games. Photographs come from each subject’s Wikipedia article.

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  Flag

  Flag of Kenya

  National flag

• 🌍Maasai Mara

  Landscape

  Maasai Mara

  A real place in Kenya

• 🦓Maasai Mara

  Landmark

  Maasai Mara

  Two million wildebeest and zebra cross it every year in the Great Migration.

• ⛵Lamu Old Town

  Landmark

  Lamu Old Town

  The oldest continuously lived-in Swahili town on the coast.

• 🦩Lake Nakuru

  Landmark

  Lake Nakuru

  Flamingos gather here in flocks so dense the shore turns pink.

• 🏔️Mount Kenya

  Landmark

  Mount Kenya

  Glaciers sit almost exactly on the equator, 5,199 m up.

• 🦁Lion

  Wildlife

  Lion

  Lions are the only big cats that live in family groups, called prides.

• 🐘African elephant

  Wildlife

  African elephant

  The largest land animal alive — and it talks through the ground with rumbles.

• 🦒Giraffe

  Wildlife

  Giraffe

  A giraffe's neck has exactly seven bones, the same number as yours.

• 🦓Plains zebra

  Wildlife

  Plains zebra

  No two zebras have the same stripe pattern, like fingerprints.

• 🦏Black rhinoceros

  Wildlife

  Black rhinoceros

  Namibia protects the last truly wild desert-adapted rhinos.

• 🐆Cheetah

  Wildlife

  Cheetah

  Fastest land animal — from standstill to 100 km/h in three seconds.

• 🦩Lesser flamingo

  Wildlife

  Lesser flamingo

  They turn pink from the tiny algae they filter out of the water.

• 🐆Leopard

  Wildlife

  Leopard

  The strongest climber of the big cats — it can haul prey heavier than itself up a trunk.

• 🐃African buffalo

  Wildlife

  African buffalo

  Herds seem to 'vote' on which way to go by the direction they stand.

• 🐂Blue wildebeest

  Wildlife

  Blue wildebeest

  Calves can stand and run within minutes of being born.

• 🐗Warthog

  Wildlife

  Warthog

  It reverses into its burrow so its tusks face any visitor.

• 🪶Ostrich

  Wildlife

  Ostrich

  It can outrun a racehorse and kick hard enough to hurt a lion.

• 🐒Vervet monkey

  Wildlife

  Vervet monkey

  It has different alarm calls for eagle, snake and leopard.

• 🐕Spotted hyena

  Wildlife

  Spotted hyena

  Clans are led by females, and hyenas hunt far more than they scavenge.

• 🐒Olive baboon

  Wildlife

  Olive baboon

  Troops of over a hundred travel together with the babies in the middle.

• 🦌Impala

  Wildlife

  Impala

  It can leap ten metres forward in a single bound.

• 🐒Black-and-white colobus

  Wildlife

  Black-and-white colobus

  It has no thumb, which helps it swing cleanly through the branches.

• 🦅Secretary bird

  Wildlife

  Secretary bird

  It kills snakes by stamping on them with the force of five times its body weight.

• 🐦Grey crowned crane

  Wildlife

  Grey crowned crane

  Uganda's national bird, with a golden crown of stiff feathers.

• 🐦‍⬛Southern ground hornbill

  Wildlife

  Southern ground hornbill

  It can live for sixty years and only raises one chick every nine.

• 🦅Rüppell's vulture

  Wildlife

  Rüppell's vulture

  The highest-flying bird ever recorded — 11,000 metres up.

• 🦌Mountain bongo

  Wildlife

  Mountain bongo

  Fewer than 100 remain in the wild, all in Kenyan highland forest.

• 🦓Grévy's zebra

  Wildlife

  Grévy's zebra

  The biggest wild horse in the world, with round ears like a mule.

• 🦌Gerenuk

  Wildlife

  Gerenuk

  Its name means 'giraffe-necked' in Somali.

• 🦌Kirk's dik-dik

  Wildlife

  Kirk's dik-dik

  Pairs stay together for life and mark their patch with tears.

• 🐦Greater honeyguide

  Wildlife

  Greater honeyguide

  It calls humans to a bees' nest, then shares the wax after the raid.

• 🐟Nile perch

  Wildlife

  Nile perch

  It can grow to two metres and 200 kg in Lake Victoria.

• 🐍Puff adder

  Wildlife

  Puff adder

  It hisses like a puff of steam, which is where the name comes from.

• 🐍Black mamba

  Wildlife

  Black mamba

  Africa's fastest snake — its mouth, not its skin, is inky black.

• 🐈Serval

  Wildlife

  Serval

  It leaps three metres straight up to catch birds in mid-air.

• 🐈Caracal

  Wildlife

  Caracal

  Its tufted ears swivel like radar dishes to pinpoint prey.

• 🦡Honey badger

  Wildlife

  Honey badger

  Its loose skin lets it twist around and bite an attacker holding it.

• 🦔Cape porcupine

  Wildlife

  Cape porcupine

  Africa's largest rodent — its quills are hollow and rattle in warning.

• 🐒Bushbaby

  Wildlife

  Bushbaby

  It can jump over two metres between branches in total darkness.

• 🐹Rock hyrax

  Wildlife

  Rock hyrax

  It looks like a guinea pig, but its closest relative is the elephant.

• 🐂Common eland

  Wildlife

  Common eland

  A tonne in weight and still able to clear a two-metre fence.

• 🦌Topi

  Wildlife

  Topi

  Males stand on mounds as lookout posts to watch their patch.

• 🦌Waterbuck

  Wildlife

  Waterbuck

  A white ring on its rump makes it easy to follow in long grass.

• 🐕Black-backed jackal

  Wildlife

  Black-backed jackal

  Pairs mate for life and hunt, raise pups and defend a patch together.

• 🏙️Nairobi

  City

  Nairobi

  Capital of Kenya

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