Kenya and Tanzania -- Oct 2012 -- Part I of III

I'm going to use this caption for several photos taken around the same place and the same time. Both types of animals were near one another in this place, but only one type or the other shows up in most of these photos.

Hyenas are supposed to be ferocious, but we did not see any kills (or attempted kills) -- by any predator animal. Generally when we DID see hyena (or lion or chetah or jackel) near other animals, they predator and potential prey kept a pretty close watch on one another. These elephants were an exception -- they seemed to ignore they hyenas. I suspect, however, that if I had looked closely, the elephant mothers probably arranged things so they were between the hyenas and the baby elephants.