Serengeti Migration

The Serengeti migration is one of the top 10 natural wonders of the world by any standard.  Also called the great migration because each year about the same time, the circular, great wildebeest migration begins in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of the southern Serengeti in Tanzania and loops in a counterclockwise direction through the Serengeti National Park and north towards the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. This migration is a natural phenomenon determined by the availability of grazing. The initial phase lasts from approximately January to March, when the calving season begins,  a time where there is plenty of rain ripened grass available for the 300,000 zebra that proceed 1.7 million wildebeest and the hundreds of thousands of other plains game including about half a million gazelles.  the Serengeti is also famous for its abundant large predators. The ecosystem is home to over 3,000 Lions, 1,000 African leopards,^[19] and 7,700 to 8,700 spotted hyenas.