of the many mammals found in the park include: Aardwolf Yellow baboon Cape buffalo Senegal bushbaby Bushbuck Caracal African wildcat Southeast African cheetah African civet Kirk's dik-dik African wild dog African dormouse Blue duiker Bush duiker Harvey's red duiker Common eland African bush elephant Bat-eared fox Northern greater galago Grant's gazelle Rusty-spotted genet Common genet Gerenuk Masai giraffe African savanna hare Springhare Coke's hartebeest Hunter's hartebeest East African hedgehog Spotted hyena Striped hyena Yellow-spotted rock hyrax Southern tree hyrax Impala Black-backed jackal Side-striped jackal Klipspringer Lesser kudu Leopard Lion Banded mongoose Dwarf mongoose Egyptian mongoose Marsh mongoose Slender mongoose White-tailed mongoose Vervet monkey Sykes' monkey Fringe-eared oryx Clawless otter Ground pangolin Crested porcupine Cane rat Giant rat Naked mole rat Honey badger Bohor reedbuck Black rhinoceros Serval Elephant shrew Bush squirrel African red squirrel Striped ground squirrel Unstriped ground squirrel Suni Common warthog Ellipsen waterbuck Plains zebra Grevy's zebra. Birds Over 500 bird species have been recorded in the area, including ostriches, kestrels, buzzards, starlings, weaver birds, kingfishers, hornbills, secretary birds and herons. Poaching Between 2001 and 2006 more than 100 lions, elephants & other exotic wildlife have been killed in the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem. Most of them have been speared by young men. The poachers usually do not face serious consequences. In contrast, the game scouts who arrested offenders have been punished by the community. References Kusimba, Chapurukha M.; Kusimba, Sibel B.; Wright, David K. (2005) The development and collapse of precolonial ethnic mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya. Journal of African Archaeology 3(2):345–365. JAfrArch Thorbahn, P. F., (1979) The Precolonial Ivory Trade of East Africa: Reconstruction of a Human-Elephant Ecosystem. Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Wijngaarden, W. v., and V. W. P. v. Engelen (1985) Soils and Vegetation of the Tsavo Area. Geological Survey of Kenya, Nairobi. Wright, David K. (2005) Environment, Chronology and Resource Exploitation of the Pastoral Neolithic in Tsavo, Kenya. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago. Wright Diss Wright, David K. (2005) New perspectives on early regional interaction networks in East Africa: A view from Tsavo National Park, Kenya. African Archaeological Review 15(3):111–141. AAR Wright, David K. (2007) Tethered mobility and riparian resource exploitation among Neolithic hunters and herders in the Galana River Basin, Kenyan Coastal Lowlands. Environmental Archaeology 12(1):25–47. Env. Archaeology Wright, David K.; Forman, Steven L.; Kusimba, Chapurukha M.; Pierson, James; Gomez, Jeanette; Tattersfield, Peter (2007) Stratigraphic and geochronological context of human