Guest Playlist: The Cats’ World in Tanzania’s Parks

We’re still on safari this Feline Friday, with a playlist video visit to Tanzania’s Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Tarangire national parks.

The cats are there, sometimes — can you spot them all? — but they have many wonderful neighbors:

The Serengeti

National Geographic:

The Serengeti is a vast, undulating plain that stretches 30,000 square kilometers (11,583 square miles) from Kenya’s Maasai-Mara game reserve to Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park…home to one of the continent’s highest concentrations of large mammal species…
Little-known facts about the “endless plains.”
SMALL cats are out there, too!

Ngorongoro Crater

UNESCO:

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (809,440 ha)…includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera, and Olduvai Gorge, a 14km long deep ravine. The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation in view of the presence of globally threatened species such as the black Rhino, the density of wildlife inhabiting the Ngorongoro Crater and surrounding areas throughout the year, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, Thompson’s and Grant’s gazelles and other ungulates into the northern plains.
Relax. This caldera won’t erupt again, though the area does still have at least one active volcano — a very unusual one, too!
Cats of Africa, and where to find them, including but not limited to Ngorongoro.

Tarangire National Park

GANP (Global Alliance of National Parks):

Tarangire is…renowned for the abundance of elephants which serves as one of the draws to the park. There are several predator species such as African wild dog, cheetah, caracal. Honeybadger, and of course the sought-after lion and leopard. Tarangire is one of Tanzania’s Lion Conservation Units.

Some of the other wildlife found in the park include baboon, cape buffalo, dik-dik, eland, gazelle, giraffe, impala, mongoose, vervet monkey, wildebeest, and zebra. It is also a spectacular place for bird watching with over 550 species.
Also “upside-down trees“!
The predators.

A little lagniappe:

They really do look upside down — and there’s just so much water in there!