Africa: The Serengeti Page #2
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In daytime, only one lion hunt
in five succeeds.
Finally, after months
of migration,
surge into the bounty that has
drawn them northward
the rich pastures of the
Maasai Mara in Kenya.
Once more, their instincts have
brought them to a place of plenty.
Here, they will range
until the life-giving rains
return on the winds of October.
To the east,
close by the Serengeti,
there is a place of even
greater abundance.
One of the natural
wonders of the world.
It is a microcosm
of the Serengeti.
Ngorongoro crater is
a huge volcanic caldera,
encompassing 100 square miles,
a remnant of the great eruptions
that created the Serengeti plains.
From cloud forests along the rim to
the crater floor 2,000 feet below,
a self-contained
ecosystem provides ...
abundant forage
and plentiful water.
Where there is water, there is life.
An object of amusement to some,
the hippopotamus can cut a crocodile
or a human in half with a single bite.
Prompting an axiom
of the Serengeti:
"Never come between a hippo
and its territorial waters."
Tens of thousands of
animals dwell here,
others come in migrations
of the sky:
Flamingos from Namibia.
Storks from as far
as Europe and Asia.
Like privileged cousins of the
migrating herds outside,
wildebeests and zebras within
need only wander from
pasture to pasture.
Dangers abound here as elsewhere.
a tangle of stripes,
confusing to predators.
The horses of Africa appear placid,
but they have never
been domesticated.
The black rhinoceros, for all its
formidable presence ...
and frequent marking of territory
is a vulnerable giant,
poached almost to extinction
for the value of its horn.
Ngorongoro crater is one of the
where the black rhino endures.
For a baboon troop
much of the day passes ...
attending to young, grooming ...
and socializing.
Though the job of protecting ...
the lion pride and its territory
belongs to the males,
the work of hunting and raising
young falls to the females.
Play helps prepare the young for
the violent encounters to come.
The vaunted power of lions is matched
by a prodigious capacity for rest.
Typically 20 hours a day is
spent in regal slumber.
When lions mate, however,
they do so on average ...
every 25 minutes,
day and night ...
without feeding ...
for three or four days.
It has been estimated that
for every cub that
survives its first year.
These lands are also
the cradle of humanity.
Gashed into the
eastern Serengeti ...
Plains near Ngorongoro is
Olduvai-gorge, one of the most ...
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