Up Close & Personal: Serengeti Wildlife

Sidhartha & Madhushree Birla's love affair with wildlife began with their first trip to Serengeti, Tanazania in 2012 and has continued ever since. The duo has been going back every year, for the last five years, capturing vignettes of the plains that is home to Africa's largest lion population. In the words of Sidhartha Birla, Chairman, Xpro India, "Serengeti is derived from a Maasai word, meaning endless plains. It is home to over 3,000 lions, 5,000 elephants, 200,000 zebras and over one million wildebeest." Business Today shares exclusive snaps of the couple's safari.

Lone buffalo in Ngorongoro

Contemplating the open space, Central Serengeti

Elephant in Ngorongoro

Lazy lion scratching his back, Seronera river area, Serengeti, in Tanzania

Cheetah trying to take a nap post-lunch

Mother and baby leopard in Serengeti, the baby was self-learning carrying loads up the tree and after a while mama leopard decided he had done enough and climbed the tree to pamper him

One of two lion brothers in Ngorongoro

Baby lion after a feeding, Seronera river area, Serengeti, in Tanzania

Younger members of a large lion pride, at Seronera river area, Serengeti, in Tanzania

Vulture swooping down on its pack which was feeding on a kill

Wildebeest mother and baby on the run during the migration in Central Serengeti

One of two lion brothers in Ngorongoro

Startled zebras at a water hole, at Central Serengeti, in Tanzania

Young Maasai herdsman in the vicinity of Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania