“so that there were 15,000 buffalo and 100,000 to 200,000 wildebeest, and over the years everyone came to think that this was the way the Serengeti had always been.” The disease brought other ...

Buffalo spend most of the year in herds of anywhere between 50 and 500, but that number jumps up into the thousands in the Serengeti during the rainy season. Gathering in such large groups helps ...

Serengeti National Park encompasses 5,700 square ... waterbuck, eland, impalas, buffalo, warthogs, and other herbivores living less peripatetic lives. Nowhere else in Africa supports quite such ...

But inside the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania ... Last week, they killed a buffalo down there and they were eating it together for five days." The animal experience was fine until the ...

The Serengeti is also home to the lesser-known 'Small Five' (antlions, rhinoceros beetles, buffalo weavers, elephant shrews, and leopard tortoises) and the 'Ugly Five' (hyenas, vultures ...

The Serengeti National Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. This African wilderness is home to Africa's iconic Big 5 - lion, rhino, leopard, elephant and cape buffalo.