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

The Wanga would sometimes hire Maasai and Kalenjin mercenaries to fight for them.

The Maasai language ( sometimes misspelled Masai ) ( autonym: ɔl Maa ) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 800, 000.

Samburu is closely related to Camus ( 88 % to 94 % lexical similarity ; Camus is sometimes considered a Samburu dialect ) and to the South Maa language Maasai ( 77 % to 89 % lexical similarity ).

Kileken ( sometimes Kileghen ) is the subject of a myth of the Maasai people concerning the planet Venus.

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.

The Masai Giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi ), also known as the Maasai Giraffe or Kilimanjaro Giraffe, is the largest subspecies of giraffe and the tallest land mammal.

Maguire ( 1948: 10 ) already reported a high level of bilinguality in Maasai, and remarked that " he language of the Mósiro Akiek clan name is dying, as any language except Masai tends to do in the Masai country.

When the family is in Africa, they experience such sights as the Masai Mara, Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Mount Kilimanjaro, and meet with a group of Maasai tribesmen.

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 Turkana people of the north, the Bajuni, Akamba, Borana, Chuka, Gusii, Kikuyu, Luhya and Luo, the Maasai and the related Samburu and the Mijikenda (" nine tribes ") of the eastern coast are all found within the borders of Kenya.

( both adumu and aigus are Maa verbs meaning " to jump " with adumu meaning " To jump up and down in a dance ") has made Maasai warriors known for, and often photographed during, this competitive jumping.

" 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.

Nilotic peoples include the nomadic Maasai and Luo, both of which are found in greater numbers in neighbouring Kenya.

Groups of Nilotic or related origin include the nomadic Maasai and the Luo, both of which are found in greater numbers in neighbouring Kenya.

He also reported that lower nasal indices are often found amongst Nilotes who inhabit the more southerly Great Lakes region, such as the Maasai, a fact which he attributed to genetic differences.

The people of the Rift Valley are a mesh work of different tribal identities, and the Kalenjin and the Maasai are two of the best known ethnic groups.

About 70 % of national parks and game reserves in East Africa are on Maasai land ( Kamuaro, 2007 ).

These rituals are mainly directed towards boys, as the Maasai women focus on marriage as a coming of age ritual.

Members of the Gĩkũyũ family from the greater Kiambu ( commonly referred to as the Kabete ) and Nyeri districts are closely related to the Maasai people due to intermarriage prior to colonization.

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.

The warriors of the Maasai nation of Kenya are famous for their long, thin, red dreadlocks.

Maasai are semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and northern Tanzania who have pastoral transhumance cultures that revolve around their cattle.

The main ethnic groups living around Mount Kenya are Kĩkũyũ, Ameru, Embu and Maasai.

The Samburu are a Nilotic people of north-central Kenya that are related to but distinct from the Maasai.

The Samburu are part of the Maa speaking people as are the Maasai.

Sometimes Samburu extras are used to portray members of the closely related, but better known, Maasai ethnic group as in the film The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.

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

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

The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of the country have settled there attracted by the successful tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area ( average ) one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world with 400 species of birds including water birds, pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, hammerkops and 47 types of raptor.

The signature Nilotic paternal marker Haplogroup A3b2 was observed in 27 % of the Maasai, 22 % of the Alur, and 11 % of the Luo.

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

The authors also found that certain Nilotic populations in the eastern Great Lakes region, such as the Maasai, showed some additional Afro-Asiatic affinities due to repeated assimilation of Cushitic-speaking peoples over the past 5000 or so years.

The Kisii ended up in a geographical location unique among Bantu speaking groups in that they were surrounded on all sides by initially, and later sporadically hostile Nilotic communities of the Luo, Kipsigis, Nandi, and Maasai.

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.

* Eastern Nilotic languages such as Turkana and Maasai

At one point in the episode, the Simpsons visit the Maasai people, a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania.

The Akiek of northern Tanzania, speakers of a Southern Nilotic Kalenjin tongue, are under heavy influence from Maasai.

As a result of this decision the Yaaku almost completely gave up their Cushitic language Yaaku for the Eastern Nilotic Maasai language between 1925 and 1936.

According to the 2009 Kenyan census, Turkana number 855, 399, or 2. 5 % of the Kenyan population, making Turkana the third largest Nilotic ethnic group in Kenya, after the Kalenjin and the Luo, slightly more numerous than the Maasai, and the tenth largest ethnicity in all of Kenya.