The Maasai Mara National Reserve ( also spelled Masai Mara ; known by the locals as The Mara ) is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

It is famous for its exceptional population of lions, leopards and cheetahs, game, and the annual migration of zebra, Thomson's gazelle, and wildebeest to and fro the Serengeti every year from July to October, known as the Great Migration.

It is bounded by the Serengeti Park to the south, the Siria escarpment to the west, and Maasai pastoral ranches to the north, east and west.

The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa.

The Serengeti hosts the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, which is one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world.

Currently there is controversy surrounding a proposed road that is to be built through the Serengeti in Tanzania.

The migration is chronicled in the 1994 documentary film, Africa: The Serengeti.

Ol Doinyo Lengai, the only active volcano in the area of the Serengeti, is the only volcano that still ejects carbonatite lavas.

The Serengeti plain is punctuated by granite and gneiss outcroppings known as kopjes.

One kopje likely to be seen by visitors to the Serengeti is the Simba Kopje ( Lion Kopje ).

The country has dozens of beaches such as those found in Zanzibar and national parks like the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Other smaller parks such as Mikumi National parks which is located near Dar es Salaam also contribute to the economy of the country.

To the west of the Crater Highlands lies Serengeti National Park, which is famous for its lions, leopards, elephants, rhinoceroses, and buffalo plus the annual migration of millions of white bearded wildebeest.

* The Serengeti cat is developed from crosses with Oriental Shorthair or Siamese, with the aim to produce a domestic cat mimicking the appearance of an African serval, without actually incorporating serval genes by hybridization.

" Vertical migration ", for example, the phenomenon of plankton and fishes regularly changing their depth throughout the 24h day, is a special usage unlike migrations of ( e. g. ) salmons that range over distances in migrations that may cover river, lake, and sea, or the great migrations of game through Africa's Serengeti.

It is in the eastern Serengeti Plains in northern Tanzania and is about 48 km ( 30 mi ) long.

In the Serengeti home ranges are around, while in the Ngorongoro it is between.

As the surrounding landscape is a large swathe of dry Sahel across Africa the swamp is also a haven for migrating animals, especially antelopes such as the endangered Nile Lechwe, Tiang, Reedbuck, and the world's largest population of White-eared Kob, estimated at around 1. 2 million – animal populations comparable to Tanzania's better-known Serengeti National Park.

In the early 2000s the zoo added a number of new exhibits including Lions of the Serengeti in 2005, a walk-through lemur enclosure in 2007 ( officially opened on 28 March 2007 by Dominic Byrne from The Chris Moyles Show on Radio 1, who is a regular visitor to the park ), the Rhinos of Nepal exhibit in February 2007, Cheetah Rock on Easter 2008, a sloth bear exhibit in May 2008, and Wild Wild Whipsnade in May 2009.

Opened in 2005, Lions of the Serengeti is home to a pride of African Lions, a male named Spike, two females named Mashaka-Lia and Kachanga, and four younger lions named Kea, Kato, Toto and Neo, which are all the offspring of Spike and Mashaka.

Effectively the reserve is too small and impoverished to accommodate the natural processes of large herbivores as would be apparent for example in the Serengeti where large herbivores migrate over large distances.

The region is known for its agriculture, it's beautiful lush landscapes as well as having thousands of different species of wildlife, most of the animals that can be seen in the Serengeti can also be seen in the Kagera Region in different parts of the region at different times of the year.

Wildebeest, topi, zebra, and Thomson's gazelle migrate into and occupy the Mara reserve, from the Serengeti plains to the south and Loita plains in the pastoral ranches to the north-east, from July to October or later.

Around July of each year, these ungainly animals migrate north from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture, and return to the south around October.

Altitudes in the Serengeti range from with mean temperatures varying from 15 to 25 degrees Celsius.

The years 1935 to 1959, spent at Olduvai Gorge in the Serengeti plains of Northern Tanzania, yielded many stone tools from primitive stone-chopping instruments to multi-purpose hand axes.

Before the city was established, herds of animals followed the rains and moved across the plains from Mount Kilimanjaro to Mount Kenya, a migration as great as the migration that takes place on the Serengeti.

* Serengeti Mara River flows from Masai Mara into Serengeti

Magu or Nyalikungu in Kwimba District, Tanzania was a small settlement village on the southwest coast of Lake Victoria and an important trading post for tourists travelling from Mwanza to the Serengeti National Parks.

is a studio album from American rapper Serengeti.

Serengeti will tour the United States from August 24 to September 18 in promotion of the album.

Serengeti Crossing ( known as Bongo Congo from 1997 to c. 2003 ), a grassland exhibit with ostriches, zebras, and wildebeest.

* Serengeti & Polyphonic-" Steroids " from Terradactyl ( 2009 )

One Sukuma myth states that the Tatoga ( Taturu ) were their leaders and chiefs when they migrated from the north ; the Taturu were the cattle herders and needed open plains for their cattle and moved on into the greater Serengeti area.

He now had an in-ring persona of being from the Serengeti, which involved him wearing leopard and tiger-print trunks, and possessing the mannerisms of an African predatory animal.

The first Quakers moved to Tanzania from Kenya to look for land, which they found on the border of the Serengeti Game Reserve.

Train cars from the Serengeti Express in the foreground with the Skyride in the background.

Myles Turner ( 1921 – 1984 ) was a warden of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania from 1956 to 1972.

Bohor reedbucks typically feed on grasses, from the Serengeti, Tanzania.

Surveys have reported steep declines ( 60-70 %) over periods of about 20 years dating from the late 1970s in several places, including the main strongholds for the species: Serengeti, Masai Mara and Ngorongoro.

As in the Serengeti, the wildebeest are the dominant inhabitants of the Maasai Mara, and their numbers are estimated in the millions.

Maasai people | Maasai man, Serengeti | Eastern Serengeti.

They are found along most of the perimeter, though camps are few along most of the Serengeti, which is Maasai territory.