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Serengeti National Park

Africa - Ross French - June 3, 2015

One of the known big game safari campaign destinations in continent, Serengeti park lies during a highland between the Ngorongoro highlands in northern Tanzania and also the Masai Mara Reserve, in neighboring Kenya. It’s far-famed for its annual life migration of over one million wildebeest and 200,000 zebra that create a trip from the Southern Serengeti to the northern fringe of the Masai Mara Reserve. throughout their trip, the wildebeests and zebras are in the middle of Grant’s gazelle, Thompson’s antelope, eland and impala.

The migration pattern is decided by the availablity of grazing. At the start of the year there’s many grass out there for the animals within the south eastern part of the Serengeti ecosystem. Around now, the wildebeest offer birth to close to half a million over a amount of three weeks. Because the rains finish the animals ordinarily head north-west to the Western Corridor of the Serengeti and its Grumeti river. Vast crocodiles are looking forward to the hesitant wildebeest to stumble at the crossing. From Grumeti, the wildebeest and zebra head north, arriving on the Kenyan border in July. With the beginning of the short rains in Nobember the migration starts moving south once more, typically arriving in December to their breeding grounds and also the cycle begins once more.

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