What is Serengeti?
[[File:Olivebaboon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Baboon]]]] [[File:Speke's-weaver.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Speake's Weaver]] [[File:Leopard mit Thomson-Gazelle.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Leopard]] with Thomson's [[Gazelle]]]] [[File:Maasai women and children.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Maasai]] women]] The '''Serengeti''' (also Seremgeti) is a region of [[savannah]] (woodlands and grasslands) in [[East Africa]]. The south of it (80%) belongs to [[Tanzania]]. The north of it is in [[Kenya]]. It is about 30,000 square kilometers, and one of the greatest areas for wildlife. It has more than 1.6 million [[herbivore]]s and thousands of [[predator]]s. [[Wildebeest]]s, [[gazelle]]s, [[zebra]]s and [[African Buffalo|buffalos]] are the most common animals in the region. This area is most famous for the [[migration]] that takes place every year. Every year around October nearly 1.5 million herbivores travel towards the southern [[plains]], crossing the [[Mara River]], from the northern hills for the rains. And then back to the north through the west, once again crossing the Mara river, after the rains in around April. This phenomenon is sometimes also called the Circular Migration. Also in this area is the [[archeology|archeologically]] significant [[Olduvai Gorge]] where some of the oldest [[hominid]] [[fossils]] are found. The Serengeti region contains the '''Serengeti National Park''', the '''Ngorongoro Conservation Area''' and [[Maswa Game Reserve]] in Tanzania and the [[Masai Mara|Maasai Mara National Reserve]] in Kenya. == Serengeti National Park == === Geography === The park covers 14,763&nbsp;km² (5,700 square miles) of grassland plains and [[savanna]] as well as riverine forest and woodlands. The park is in the north of the country, bordered to the north by the national [[Tanzania]] and [[Kenya]]n border, where it is continuous with the [[Masai Mara National Reserve]]. To the southeast of the park is [[Ngorongoro Conservation Area]], to the southwest is [[Maswa Game Reserve]], and to the western borders are [[Ikorongo Game