The park takes its name from the Pare tribe's word for “water source”, referring to the Umba River on Mkomazi's south eastern border. The river and other water holes keep the park teeming with small and large mammals, including silver backed jackal, lion, cheetah, leopard, lesser kudu, giraffe, buffalo, elephant and zebra. Bird watchers also delight in trying to spot any number of Mkomazi's 450 avian species, from wood hoopoe to tawny eagle, parrot to kingfisher,is also home to the "big five" (lions, elephants, buffalos, rhinos and leopards.)
Mkomazi park is where black rhino and wild dog have returned to roam and is located east of the Pare Mountains, falls along the edge of a semi-arid savanna arc that stretches into bordering Kenya's Tsavo East National Park. Here is where you will find endangered black rhino and wild dog. the Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary has attained international renown for rehabilitating rhino, and it offers limitless viewing and educational opportunities for travellers .
Herds of the tall slender-necked Gerenuks, with their bizarre alien-like heads, survive in Mkomazi's arid lands where other antelope cannot; the Gerenuk even stand on their hind legs to stretch for the tiny leaves of thorny bushes and trees.
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