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The earliest surviving record of lion hunting is an ancient Egyptian inscription dated circa 1380 BC that mentions Pharaoh Amenhotep III killing 102 lions in ten years "with his own arrows". The Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal had one of his lion hunts depicted on a sequence of Assyrian palace reliefs c. 640 BC , known as the Lion Hunt of ...
The Serengeti has some of East Africa's finest game areas. [20] Besides being known for the great migration, the Serengeti is also famous for its abundant large predators. The ecosystem is home to over 3,000 lions, 1,000 African leopards, [21] and 7,700 to 8,700 spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). [22] The East African cheetah is also present in ...
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over 14,763 km 2 (5,700 sq mi). [1] It is located in eastern Mara Region and northeastern Simiyu Region and contains over 1.5 million ha (3.7 million acres) of virgin savanna .
In the Serengeti, Grant's gazelle is a potential prey item for the cheetah, but the smaller Thomson's gazelle is preferred; in Nairobi National Park, Grant's gazelle are seemingly preferred by cheetahs over Thomson's gazelle, making them an important resource for the cheetah. [11] Black-backed jackals are major predators of fawns. Grant's gazelles
The Serengeti is a huge area of grassland in Tanzania. Once a year, in time of drought, animals travel north in order to survive. This "great migration", an event in which millions of wildebeests , zebras , and antelope travel several hundred miles across the plain, while lions and other dangers await them along the way, is considered one of ...
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
In the Serengeti, they follow the larger herbivores, such as plains zebras and blue wildebeests as they mow down the taller grasses. [18] In the wild, Thomson's gazelles can live 10–15 years. Their major predators are cheetahs , which are able to attain higher speeds, but gazelles can outlast them in long chases and are able to make turns ...
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