The largest numbers occur in areas such as the Masai Mara and Kajiado ( Kenya ); Serengeti, Ruaha and Selous ( Tanzania ); Luangwa Valley ( Zambia ); Okavango ( Botswana ); Hwange, Sebungwe and the Zambezi Valley ( Zimbabwe ); Kruger National Park ( South Africa ) and on private farms and conservancies ( South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia ).

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.

Water flow from the Serengeti is minor ; the largest stream is the Sayu.

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.

Wildebeests on the Serengeti plains during the migration

Wildebeests crossing the river during the Serengeti migration

Each year around the same time the great wildebeest migration begins in the Ngorongoro area of the southern Serengeti of Tanzania.

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

Tanzania has considerable wildlife habitat, including much of the Serengeti plain, where the white-bearded wildebeest ( Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi ) and other bovids participate in a large-scale annual migration.

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.

In the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania, wildebeest may help facilitate the migration of other, smaller-bodied grazers, such as Thomson's gazelles ( Eudorcas thomsonii ), which eat the new-growth grasses stimulated by wildebeest foraging.

" 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.

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.

The Mara River is a river in Africa, flowing through Kenya and Tanzania, and lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Serengeti / Masai Mara game reserves.

* Serengeti # Great_migration, wildebeest in the Serengeti greatest mammalian Animal migration at present

Like many World Heritage sites around the world, including Yellowstone National Park, Serengeti National Park, Stonehenge, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Pyramids of Egypt-the park use fee helps to maintain world-best management practices and facilities for the more than 200, 000 visitors who experience Kakadu each year.

The highlands, which are considerably cooler than the plains and are covered by montane forest, mark the eastern border of the basin in which the Serengeti lies.

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.

He discovered that the wildlife on the Serengeti plain was almost undisturbed because the tsetse fly ( the vector for the trypanosome parasite which causes sleeping sickness in humans ) prevented human settlement there.

The Leakey boys participated in games conducted by both adults and children, in which they tried to imitate early humans, catching springhares and small antelope by hand on the Serengeti.

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.

Predators of the Serengeti, which opened in September 2009, covers and cost $ 6. 8 million to build.

California's Central Valley was once a large temperate grassland, the California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, which was formerly home to great herds of grazing pronghorn and elk ; some writers have referred to it as " America's Serengeti ".

Downstream Tanzania: Just after the Mara River flows out of Ikorongo Game Reserve ( which borders Serengeti National Park ) it meanders sharply northwards.

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.

Busch Gardens continued to grow and in 1965 they opened the 29 acre Serengeti Plains which allowed the African wildlife to roam freely.

He later worked as an advisor to the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya, which borders the Serengeti National Park.

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

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 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.

Serengeti is derived from the Maasai language, Maa ; specifically, " Serengit " meaning " Endless Plains ".

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.