There are many game parks in the area, one of the most well known is Samburu National Reserve.

It also includes the Samburu National Reserve and Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Mount Ng ' iro, Ndoro Mountains, Mathews Range ( Ol Doinyo Lenkiyo ), Kirisia Hills, and Loroki Forest.

There is a nearby Shaba National Reserve, located east of the Samburu National Reserve.

Meru City is a jumping-off place for Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves and Lewa Downs, all some distance north of Meru, with Samburu and Buffalo Springs via Isiolo, and Meru National Park, to the northeast of Meru, via Maua in the Nyambene Hills.

The Samburu National Reserve is located on the banks of the Ewaso Ng ' iro river in Kenya ; on the other side of the river is the Buffalo Springs National Reserve in Northern Kenya.

The Samburu National Reserve is also the home of Kamunyak, a lioness famous for adopting oryx calves.

Samburu National Reserve can be entered via the Ngare Mare and Buffalo Springs gates.

Samburu National Reserve is very peaceful and attracts animals because of the Ewaso Ng ' iro river ( meaning " brown water " and pronounced U-aa-so-Nyee-ro ) that runs through it and the mixture of acacia, riverine forest, thorn trees and grassland vegetation.

There is a wide variety of animal and bird life seen at Samburu National Reserve.

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Yawning vervet monkey in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Grevy's zebras in Samburu National Reserve.

In Kenya, important protected areas include the Buffalo Springs, Samburu and Shaba National Reserves and the private and community land wildlife conservancies in Isiolo, Samburu and the Laikipia Plateau.

Kamunyak ( which means Blessed One ), is a lioness in the Samburu National Reserve, in Northern Kenya.

KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the tribes so-called KAMATUSA ( an acronym for Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu ), against the dominance of the larger Luo ( Kenya ) and Kĩkũyũ tribes that comprised the majority of KANU's membership ( Kenyatta himself being a Kĩkũyũ ).

Samburu district was once a large part of the NFD.

Traditionally the Samburu economy was purely pastoralist, striving to survive off the products of their herds of cows, goats, and for some, camels.

As Europeans introduced Western style clothing it was initially shunned by Samburu.

One of the earlier film appearances by Samburu was in the 1953 John Ford classic Mogambo, in which they served as background for stars such as Clark Gable, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner.

Samburu runners were famously misportrayed in a late 1980s Nike commercial, in which a Samburu murran ’ s words were translated into English as the Nike slogan “ Just Do It .” This was corrected by anthropologist Lee Cronk, who seeing the commercial alerted Nike and the media that the Samburu murran was actually saying ; “ I don ’ t want these.

For instance, CNN recently portrayed the Samburu practice of young men giving a large number of beads to a particular girl as tantamount to rape, and erroneously stated that no research exists on the tradition despite the fact that anthropological portrayals based on long term studies show it to be largely akin to the U. S. practice of “ going steady .” In a 2009 article MSNBC took readers on a tour through imaginary places purported to be in Samburu District, while asserting that ethnic conflict between Samburu and the neighboring Pokot was the result of both sides starving because they had more cattle than the rangelands could support, although the reporter did not indicate how having too many cattle could make people starve.

KADU's aim was to defend the interests of the so-called KAMATUSA ( an acronym for Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu ethnic groups ), against the dominance of the larger Luo ( Kenya ) and Kikuyu that comprised the majority of KANU's membership.

In their oral traditions, the Ilchamus economy underwent a succession of elaborations: from foraging and fishing to a sophisticated system of irrigation, and then this was mixed with pastoralism under the influence of Samburu immigrants and neighbouring Maasai.

The 2005 film The White Masai — about a Swiss woman falling in love with a Samburu man -- similarly conflates the two ethnic groups, mainly because the authors and directors believed that no one would have heard of Samburu.

Their language is one of the Eastern Nilotic Maa languages, closely related to the Samburu language ( between 89 % and 94 % lexical similarity ), to the point of it being considered a Samburu dialect by some.

The district has two constituencies: Samburu East Constituency and Samburu West Constituency.

Even today Samburu is relatively remote, although highland areas can be reached fairly easily by public transport.

The paradox of Samburu gerontocracy is that popular attention focuses on the glamour and deviant activities of these footloose bachelors, which extend to a form of gang warfare, widespread suspicions of adultery with the wives of older men, and theft of their stock.

The name they use for themselves is Lokop or Loikop, a term which may have a variety of meanings which Samburu themselves do not agree on.

The Samburu speak Samburu, which is a Nilo-Saharan language.

The paradox of Samburu gerontocracy is that popular attention focuses on the glamour and deviant activities of these footloose bachelors, which extend to a form of gang feuding between clans, widespread suspicions of covert adultery with the wives of older men, and theft of their stock.

The name ' Samburu ' is also of Maasai origin and is derived from the word ' Samburr ' which is a leather bag used by the Samburu to carry a variety of things.

In the 1990s, 300 Samburu travelled to South Africa to play opposite Kevin Bacon in the basketball comedy The Air Up There, in which Samburu are portrayed as a group called “ The Wonaabe ” whose prince is a potential hoops star who would propel Bacon to a college head coaching job.

To the east, the Maa languages Samburu and Camus ( on Lake Baringo ) are spoken, and to the south, the other Kalenjin languages Tugen and Markweta are found, which show considerable influence from Pökoot.

The Isiolo town is also becoming a centre of interest because of the of its newly acquired status as a resort city cashing in on the popular Samburu and Shaba Game reserves and the Meru National Park, which have become preferred destinations after the famed Maasai Mara.

Today Samburu rely increasingly on purchased agricultural products — with money acquired mainly from livestock sales — and most commonly maize meal is made into a porridge.

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.

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

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

Low levels of maternal gene flow from North Africa and the Horn of Africa were also observed in a few groups, mainly via the presence of mtDNA haplogroup M and haplogroup I lineages in about 12. 5 % of the Maasai and 7 % of the Samburu samples, respectively.

It is performed by people of many cultures, such as the Indigenous Australians, the Arrente, the Luritja, the Samburu, the Samoans, and the Native Hawaiians.

Indigenous cultures of the Amazon Basin also practise subincision, as do Samburu herdboys of Kenya, who are said to perform subincisions on themselves ( or sometimes their peers ) at age seven to ten.

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.

In Kenya, Samburu society is said to be a gerontocracy.

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

The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels.

They live north of the equator in Samburu District, an area roughly.

The main highland area is the Leroghi plateau ( known in Samburu as Ldonyo, the Mountain ), at about above sea level.

Samburu warriors near Lake Turkana.

The Samburu are a gerontocracy.

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