The Game Reserve was named after Frederick Courteney Selous, a British explorer and hunter in East Africa
who was killed in World War 1 in the Beho region of the reserve.
The area has remained one of the untouched gems of Tanzania’s national parks and game reserves.
There are large populations of elephant in the park. Approximately 70% of Tanzania’s elephants are found
in this reserve. Other well-known animals include the hippo who inhabit
the river systems, depleted numbers of the black rhino, large herds of buffalo, lion and the area’s rare
and endangered wild dogs and patrol the Reserve. Also found here are Nyasaland gnu, brindled gnu,
hartebeest, Greater Kudu, sable antelope, eland, reedbuck, bushbuck, waterbuck, warthog, zebras, giraffe,
wildebeest, leopard, cheetah are rare. There are over 350 species of birds including African snipe,
Bataleur eagle, Crested lark, Green-headed oriole, Knob-billed duck, herons, kingfishers, geese and
Southern Ground hornbill. Reptiles such as crocodiles and various snakes and lizards are also found.
