Tourists and safari guides at Masai Mara National Game Reserve were on Thursday, November 17, amazed by a rare kind of buffalo.
An 'albino' buffalo calf was spotted while grazing together with a herd of adult buffalos.
The uniquely coloured albino buffalo calf attracted a huge convoy of vehicles that ferried tourists to the renowned Game Reserve.
"I found it near the Sand River at the border of the Mara and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park but on the Kenyan side.
"It was a bit shy and that is why it was difficult to take good shots," recounted Koshal, a Tour Guide.
Foreign tourists spent more time at the scene of grazing as they expressed their excitement before returning to their hotel rooms in and out of the park.
"It was after we spotted a leopard called Kazuri hunting and when she failed, we decided to go look for a black rhino near a hill called Ron Hill,” Koshal told Journalists.
The tourists who were armed with cameras invaded the plain fields of Masai Mara to capture the moment that revived the wonderful memories of wildebeest migration.
“That's when we came across a herd of almost 1,000 buffaloes and when we were driving through, we spotted the unique buffalo," a tourist narrated.
The tourists mentioned that, at a glance, they were not able to tell whether it was a cow’s calf or something else.
That is when they decided to move closer, and realised it was a buffalo calf with unique features.
The calf resembled a Friesian calf with white and black patches like those of a cow.
Tourists and guides have made similar sightings of uniquely coloured wildlife in the Mara reserve before. A zebra foal with white spots instead of stripes was sighted at Masai Mara Game Reserve in 2019.
The foal looked like a crossbreed of a zebra and a donkey.
However, the rare zebra has not been seen since it crossed into Tanzania's Serengeti park.
