National park’s official site Serengeti Name; Emily Deeb Class: 9 th grade

The Serengeti region surround and have or hold within the Serengeti National Park itself, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Over 90,000 tourists visit the Park each year.

Two World Heritage Sites have been established within the 30,000 km² region. It's unique biological community of the park and their physical environment has inspired writers from Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mattheissen, filmmakers like Hugo von Lawick and Alan Root as well as numerous photographers and scientists.

"We walked for miles over burnt out country... the green trees of the river, walked two miles more and you found your self in paradise. Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th world wide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh hunting.

 (from the internet)  About Serengeti Size: 14,763 sq km (5,700 sq miles). Location: 335km (208 miles) from Arusha, stretching north to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the west.  Getting there Scheduled and charter flights from Arusha, Lake Manyara and Mwanza. Drive from Arusha, Lake Manyara, Tarangire or Ngorongoro Crater. What to do Hot air balloon safaris, walking safari, picnicking, game drives, bush lunch/dinner can be arranged with hotels/tour operators. Maasai rock paintings and musical rocks.  Visit neighboring Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and Lake Natron's flamingos.  When to go To follow the wildebeest migration, December-July. To see predators, June-October.  Accommodation Four lodges, six luxury tented camps and camp sites scattered through the park; one new lodge will be opened next season (Bilila Lodge); one luxury camp, a lodge and two tented camps just outside.

 You may hear of the Big Five before going on Safari, from an old book, or from a nature. A movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report. Today, they are five of the animals which people most want to see while on Safari. The Big Five were the most seeking after animals to hunt. They were the fiercest, the most dangerous animals; the animals that would hunt the hunter.

 The Lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panther, and a member of the family Felidae ( the biological family of the cats). With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia. having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. Click here When stop Click esc

Leopards are heavier and more strongly built than cheetahs, but still one third the size of lions. Their spots are dark cheetah's spots are round and solid. with a hollow center, all on a tan background. Leopards hunt at night, and attack when only an a animal few meters away. Cheetahs, smaller and lighter than leopards, are built for speed. They chase down their prey during the daytime in dramatic races. Click here When stop Press esc

 Behavior The leopards of Serengeti can be seen along rivers. By day, leopards often lounge and nap in large trees with their legs are falling from the tree. After making a kill, they will drag it back and up into a convenient tree for protection; from lions or hyenas who might steal their catch. A leopard will then return to the tree for several days to feed and rest. The classic pose of a leopard is feet falling from a large Acacia tortillas tree, fast asleep with a gazelle draped over the tree in front of it. Unlike lions, leopards are solitary animals throughout their lives. Leopards mature at two years old and can have cubs every two years after that. Mothers appear to allow their young into their territory and have been seen to hunt with them.

 There are five species of rhinoceros in the world of which two species are found in Africa - the White or Square-lip Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) and the Black or Hook-lip Rhino (Diceros bicornis). The black rhino found in the Serengeti-Ngorongoro.  Black rhino were once numerous on the Serengeti plains. But their horns are still in demand, in the Far East as local drugs and in the Arab world as the handle for daggers, resulting in heavy poaching. Consequently, the number of rhino in the Serengeti has been reduced to a handful and these are under heavy protection by the park's armed anti-poaching rangers to try to ensure their survival. White rhino are not found in the Serengeti.

 The Cape Buffalo, the bosses of its huge bent horns held high with more than half a ton of buffalo behind them makes for a very frightening animal. With its size, its aggressive ability, the buffalo has been one of Africa's most successful large mammals. Some people confuse this animal with the Water Buffalo of Asia Minor and North Africa, which is both a wild and Not dangerous or frightened of people. The Cape or African Buffalo is the larger of the two animals, and is, in fact, the second largest animal in the cattle family.

 The African Elephant is the largest land animal, and at kg, they weigh as much as four cars. Both males and female elephants can push down full-grown trees in the search for food. They can also pick up the smallest seeds or nuts with their digit-like trunk. Elephants live over most of sub-Saharan Africa. Today, elephants still range over a wide area of Africa, and a wide diversity of habitats, from swamps and forests, plains and savannas to the open Namibian desert.

 As the sun goes down in the Serengeti, many animals are finding a safe place to roll up and hide for the night, while others are just waking up and are looking forward for darkness. Whether you are an animal hunting or being hunted, or a person listening to the sounds of the night, the Serengeti becomes a different place when darkness falls.  During the day, good vision and behavior protects many of the large herbivores(animals that eat plants) including zebra, wildebeest, and other gazelles hodes from their predators. The night is the time for these predators such as hyenas, lions, and leopards to hunt their food. Night-time is also the time when many smaller "Night Animals" come out, ones that are eaten by raptors or other daytime predators.

 On the Serengeti, 'hunter and hunted' Make something appear, a picture of a powerful tawny or spotted cat charging into a fleeing herd of soft- eyed gazelle. It's true that these great plains are the best place to observe that attack, but in fact almost every living thing here is either hunter or hunted - and often both!  Even to the most casual observer, the big cats, and the wild-dogs and hyenas, with their powerful or speedy bodies, their stabbing teeth and meat hook claws, are well-designed killers.

 Behind the stones, hidden in the grass, and high on a branch live the Serengeti's Little Five. They may not be the Big Five, but for the connoisseur of wildlife or the expert who wants an ultimate safari, the ant lion and the RHINO beetle are a fascinating choice,as well as ELEPHANT shrew and BUFFALO weaver or the LEOPARD tortoise.  Rhino or Dung Beetle Across the Serengeti travels a curious animal. Standing on its head and rolling a ball behind it, the dung beetle is working hard for its children. Beetles are the most different and successful group of animals on the planet, with over 400,000 known species.

 Elephant Shrew and Buffalo Weaver: Elephant Shrew  They may have the same name, but the African elephant and the elephant shrew could not be more different. The elephant is huge, weighing up to 6000 kg and lives for years. The elephant shrew lives for only one year and weighs only 50g.  Buffalo Weaver  The male buffalo weaver, like the full-sized Cape Buffalo, can be very special about its personal space.

 Leopard Tortoise  The leopard tortoise is the fourth largest species of tortoise in the world, with typical adults reaching 18-inch (460 mm) and weighing 40- pound (18 kg).Large examples may be 70-centimetre (28 in) long and weigh up to 120-pound (54 kg).

 Birds are one of the most different life forms on earth. They are herbivores (An animal that feeds on plants), insectivores (Feeding on insects, worms), predators and scavengers (An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse).

 Serengeti National Park is made up of a large area covered with grass and woodland(forest), plains(lowland), kopjes(A small hill in a generally flat area), and marshes(An area of low-lying land that is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide); all of which make up a savanna. "Savanna" is a general term for any type of semi-arid land from open grassland to woodland and all mixtures of grass and trees in between. Savannas cover one quarter of the worlds land surface and can support more animals than any other land type.

In Kiswahili, simply means "journey". But in English it has become a synonym for a wildlife viewing adventure in the African bush. 'To go on safari' In Tanzania is, and always will remain a fascinating and exclusive experience!  It is well known that Tanzania has beautiful nature reserves rich in wildlife.

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