serengeti

     

This article is about a geographical region; for the National Park see Serengeti National Park

Trivia about serengeti

  • This plain of Tanzania is the place in Africa where vast land migrations of animals still take place
  • One of the last places in Africa where large animal migrations still take place, this national park was est. in 1941
  • This northern Tanzania national park is twice the size of Yellowstone
  • The imperiled cheetah has a refuge in this 5,700-square-mile park in northern Tanzania
  • This 5,700-square-mile national park in Tanzania means "great open place"
  • This Tanzanian national park lost more than 1,000 lions in 1994 when they caught canine distemper from domestic dogs
  • In May or June the "Great Migration" of wildebeest begins, from Kenya to this Tanzanian national park
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of southeast Africa, with Tanzania and the Indian Ocean labeled.) In Africa, the only place where vast animal migrations occur is in this large Tanzanian national park, where herds move in a circular route to find water and grazeable land
  • This African natl. park HQed at seronera first got elephants 30 years ago, pushed in by encroaching humans
  • Conservationist Michael Grzimek's grave in this park says, "He gave all he possessed for the wildlife of Africa"