What's for dinner tonight? 

Baboon up a tree!

At Mwagusi we love our healthy greens!

"An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb"

Did you know?

The caterpillar has been called "the eating machine", and is a voracious eater, gorging on leaves at a rate exceeding 85,000 times than its weight in a couple of months. Most species shed their skin four or five times as their bodies grow, and they eventually enter a pupal stage before becoming adults. 

The expression "eat like a bird" has been used to indicate a small appetite when in fact birds are prodigious eaters due to their high metabolism and the amount of calories they burn during flight. For example, hummingbirds eat more than their weight every day (sometimes 2 times) and lab tests have shown they eat "in a single sitting" just as we do.

Elephants can spend up to 18 hours a day munching on grass, leaves and bark. In total that's in between 200 and 600 pound. The San Diego Zoo has calculated that their male African elephant requires 70,158 calories daily, which is the equivalent of about what 30 adult male humans need. Elephants can also drink up to 50 gallons of water a day about as much as a standard bathtub holds.

In the animal kingdom, there's no size requirement for a champion eater. The brown bat is only about four inches long, and weighs less than an ounce, but he can eat 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour.

Human eating competitors may seem fast but they're not nearly as quick as the chameleon. When this bright green critter's sticky tongue shoots out to snatch prey, it accelerates from 0 to 20 feet per second... in just 20 milliseconds.

The strongest biter alive is the crocodile. A crocodile can chomp down with a force of 5,000 pounds per square inch (humans have a biting force of 100 pound per square inch). Their ancestors were champions as well, scientists have calculated that extinct crocodiles were able to bite twice as hard as a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Foxes NGO - Milk Powder Program

Many babies, in the Children’s Village and in the wider community owe their chance of a healthy life to the remarkable and unsung Milk Powder Program. In our Outreach work HIV infected nursing mothers are encouraged to join the program and to bottle feed their babies with Formula in order to prevent the transmission of HIV from their mothers.

The Outreach workers also keep an eye out for any underweight infants and toddlers in their areas as they too can be enrolled on the program to receive Formula or Lishe (porridge) powder.

The programme ensures regular weighing and monitoring and education for the mothers in nutrition, family planning, hygiene etc.
Since its inception six years ago we have helped 230 vulnerable infants and toddlers in our target area.

We hope to continue and expand this lifesaving program in the future and to use the monthly meetings of the Milk Powder recipients to increase the educational aspect, using the services of doctors, nurses, etc to teach the carers.

Please feel free to have a look at our website Mufindi Orphans. If you have any questions about helping the Milk Power Program, feel free to ask.

Guest reviews.

" My husband and I spent three days at this beautiful lodge. The accommodations were amazing, the staff were friendly and helpful, the food was healthy and delicious, and the park tours were incredible! Each day our hosts would greet us at the car park to wish us good morning before we headed out for our five hour morning safari. Our guide Isaac was incredible. He had sharp eyes offered detailed knowledge of all the critters we saw (mammals, birds, and bugs)!. After lunch we lazed about in our cozy tent (loved the hammock) then headed out for evening safari. Dinner was served after a nice riverside fire-pit chit chat with our hosts and other guests. Three days was just the right amount of time to spend on this safari. Thank you to everyone at this lodge for the incredible safari experience! Special shout out to Martine, Henrik, Trudie, Isaac, and Rashidi."

Wendy Grosser