The Maasai Mara National Reserve ( also spelled Masai Mara ; known by the locals as The Mara ) is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

It is named after the Maasai people ( the traditional inhabitants of the area ) and their description of the area when looked at from afar: " Mara ", which is Maa ( Maasai language ) for " spotted ," an apt description for the circles of trees, scrub, savanna, and cloud shadows that mark the area.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is only a fraction of the Greater Mara Ecosystem, which includes the following Group Ranches: Koiyaki, Lemek, Ol Chorro Oirowua, Olkinyei, Siana, Maji Moto, Naikara, Ol Derkesi, Kerinkani, Oloirien, and Kimintet.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve ( MMNR ) covers some in south-western Kenya.

" Big Five " ( lion, leopard, African elephant, African buffalo, and Black Rhinoceros ) are found in the Maasai Mara.

As in the Serengeti, the wildebeest are the dominant inhabitants of the Maasai Mara, and their numbers are estimated in the millions.

An aerial photograph of a herd of Wildebeest following a few leading zebra in Maasai Mara

Unlike most other National Parks in Kenya the Maasai Mara National Reserve is not administered by the Kenya Wildlife Service, but by local authorities.

The more visited eastern part of the park is managed by Narok County Council and the western part, known as the Mara Triangle, by the Trans-Mara county council, which is contracting management to the Mara Conservancy, a local nonprofit organization formed by the local Maasai that contains several anti-poaching units.

The outer areas known as Maasai Mara Conservation area is administered by the Group Ranch Trusts of the Maasai community who also have their own rangers for patrolling the park area.

Some 250, 000 wildebeest die during the journey from Tanzania to Maasai Mara Reserve in lower Kenya, a total of.

Some west, Acacia woodlands appear suddenly and stretch west to Lake Victoria and north to the Loita Plains, north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

* Information and Research on wildebeest movements in Maasai Mara

Hot Air Balloon Safari in Maasai Mara

Cheetah at the Maasai Mara National Reserve

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The Maasai Creed is a creed composed in 1960 by the Maasai people of East Africa in collaboration with missionaries from the Congregation of the Holy Ghost.

Governor Percy Girouard is associated with the debacle of the Second Maasai Agreement of 1911, which led to their forceful removal from the fertile Laikipia plateau to semi-arid Ngong.

The Maasai were known as fierce warriors, and lived alongside most wild animals with an aversion to eating game and birds, subsisting exclusively on their cattle.

( 2008 ) examined the maternal ancestry of various Nilotic populations in Kenya, with Turkana, Samburu, Maasai and Luo individuals sampled.

Hiernaux similarly listed a height of 172. 7 cm ( 68 ") for Maasai in southern Kenya, with an extreme trunk / leg length ratio of 47. 7.

The age at which circumcision may be performed varies widely, with groups such as Americans and Jews typically circumcising in the neonatal period and African tribes such as the Maasai and Xhosa circumcising in teenage years as initiation into adulthood.

To avoid this, he lived with Maasai relatives in Narok, where he worked as a clerk for an Asian contractor.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

Even today, Maasai men can be found easily donning their dreadlocks, with a tint of red color from the soil.

That dependence was historically very strong, with even huts of the Maasai built from dried cattle dung.

The Maasai Creed is a creed composed in 1960 by the Maasai people of East Africa in collaboration with missionaries from the Congregation of the Holy Ghost.

They adorn themselves with necklaces, bracelets and anklets, like the Maasai.

Later, Remington arrives with skilled Maasai warriors to help kill the lions.

Causes of " false " melena include iron supplements, Pepto-Bismol, Maalox, and lead, blood swallowed as a result of a nose bleed ( epistaxis ), and blood ingested as part of the diet, as with the traditional African Maasai diet, which includes much blood drained from cattle.

Examples of accusative languages with this type of antipassive are Maasai, Comanche and Cahuilla.

It is especially associated with Maasai morans ( male warriors ) who have traditionally used it in warfare and for hunting.

* Maasai tribesmen also consume cow's blood, sometimes mixed with milk

Immigrants into present-day Luhyaland trace their ancestry with several Bantu groups, such as the Tutsi ( who called their king ' Mwami ,' just as the Maragoli do ) and to other Nilotic peoples like the Kalenjin, Luo, and Maasai.

While staying with a Scottish missionary, they are attacked by a Maasai group, whom they overcome with heroism.

Even though the Maasai settled in the open plains around much of the Chagga country, they cannot be credited with great influence on Chagga affairs during this period.

They also collected more than 400 ethnographical objects, most of them from Maasai and Kikuyu tribes and brought home a valuable collection of plants and animals.

The first father of the Maasai used his stick to herd animals.

* Africa has wild animals with natural forest and dolls representing Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya's ethic group of Maasai people.

This procedure is also ritual in certain tribes such as the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania.

The creed attempts to express the essentials of the Christian faith within the Maasai culture.

Other African names for the giraffe include Ekorii ( Ateso ), Kanyiet ( Elgon ), Nduida ( Gikuyu ), Tiga ( Kalenjin and Luo ), Ndwiya ( Kamba ), Nudululu ( Kihehe ), Ntegha ( Kinyaturu ), Ondere ( Lugbara ), Etiika ( Luhya ), Kuri ( Ma ' di ), Oloodo-kirragata or Olchangito-oodo ( Maasai ), Lenywa ( Meru ), Hori ( Pare ), Lment ( Samburu ) and Twiga ( Swahili and others ) in the east ; and Tutwa ( Lozi ), Nthutlwa ( Shangaan ), Indlulamitsi ( Siswati ), Thutlwa ( Sotho ), Thuda ( Venda ) and Ndlulamithi ( Zulu ) in the south.

To make way for the Europeans ( largely Britons and whites from South Africa ), the Maasai were restricted to the southern Loieta plains in 1913.

The regime leaned on the support of the Kalenjin and incited the Maasai against the Kiyuku.

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The most prominent of these groups include the Luo, Maasai, the Samburu, the Turkana, and the Kalenjin.

It is bounded by the Serengeti Park to the south, the Siria escarpment to the west, and Maasai pastoral ranches to the north, east and west.