Serengeti is a large national park, over 30,000 square kilometers. It’s all grassland with very few and occasional small rocky hills call kopjes, usually occupied by lions. It’s flat grassland all the way to the horizon in all directions. The hrass is green because the rainy season has started; a month earlier this was all yellow.
Animals are much more widely spaced than in the Ngorongoro crater. I was wondering why a hungry lion won’t just take a few steps and pop a nearby zebra, but it turns out that lions only hunt when they are hungry and the prey can tell.
Cheetahs are also common here. They are not dangerous to humans but they like to jump on cars so the truck drivers back off when one comes close. Lions roar; cheetahs make this adorable bird chirp that is totally incongruous for such a powerful animal.
Also saw elephants, giraffes, an ostrich, hyenas, and mongooses (I looked it up, “mongeese” is allowed too but I refuse to say that). Also huge hers of buffalo and antelopes.
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