Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Circles, Curves and Arches, and for this post I am focusing only on circles, which are abundant!
Circles are everywhere – in nature, in art, in architecture, in daily life. I find circles in modern sculpture,
art museums,
light fixtures,
in decorative displays,
floor patterns,
and buildings.
Circles are also common in nature, such as the sphere of the setting sun,
or a flower,
and even on animals.
In nature and human-made structures, circles, both 3D and two-dimensional, are everywhere, in all sizes, patterns and colors.
people,
Last July, on the Internet there was a story of a leopard cub being nursed by a lioness as if it were her own. The lioness lived in the Southern Serengeti and was tagged – it was the one we saw today! 
I didn’t hear any details about the story, but apparently the leopard cub had lost her mother and the lioness had lost her cubs, because she was lactating. So the handlers gave the leopard cub to the lioness to nurse, which she readily accepted.
and a martial eagle in a tree.
and a group of hyenas.
Probably a young wildebeest, Livingstone said. All that was left was a skull picked clean and a rib cage the birds were getting the last morsels of meat off of. Then the bones would be left to dry up, adding to the scattered bones that litter the area.
One of the hyenas finally got tired of this and yanked the carcass away and had its fill. 
When it was done, the hyena simply walked off, and the vultures took over to pick the remains clean. 
The afternoon drive was very different and at times a bit scary, at least for me. We were with Livingstone again but with different people in the truck with us.
The lake was in their migratory path, so they would eventually have to cross it, many accompanied by their young alongside them. They chose a relatively shallow area to cross.
We search for, hoped to see leopards. Where would a leopard be in late afternoon? In a tall tree, high up – it would need a strong, thick branch that was more or less horizontal.
an eland close-up;
hippos out of the water and close enough to see their faces;
The wildebeests (also known as gnus) in the crater don’t take the long migration of the Serengeti, but they’re always on the move to find better grassland. Large herds of them migrate from one side of the crater to another. Most of the time, you also see zebras migrating alongside the wildebeest herds. They have a mutually beneficial relationship with the wildebeest – the zebras can remember the route, while the wildebeest can smell water.
It’s calving season and many wildebeest females had newborn calves alongside them – the mother of this newborn was still expelling the afterbirth.
Another one gave birth (we could see its legs hanging down) in a field near the road. 
There seemed to be a sort of “gnu nursery” over there, where several newborns were either lying down or trying out their legs. 
The newborn we’d seen being born tried to nurse, but his mother wouldn’t let him – she kept nudging him forward to get him to walk. 
She knew there was danger nearby: several hyenas lurked on a hillside, keeping their eyes on the herd for easy prey.
A short time later, several hyenas passed us, two with traces of blood on their muzzles and paws – they’d had their meal!
and Grant’s gazelles are larger, about the size of impalas.
Gazelles are a subgroup of antelope in which both male and female have horns. That is how you know impalas are not gazelles. Another non-gazelle antelope is the eland, quite a bit larger than impalas.
..and a jackal finishing off a meal with her pups.
