The Serengeti National Park is a Tanzanian national park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions. It is famous for its annual migration of over 1.5 million white bearded or brindled wildebeest and 250,000 zebra and for its numerous Nile crocodile and honey badger.nThe Maasai people had been grazing their livestock in the open plains of eastern Mara Region, which they named endless plains, for around 200 years when the first European explorer, Austrian Oscar Baumann, visited the area in 1892. The name Serengeti is an approximation of the word used by the Maasai to describe the area, siringet, which means the place where the land runs on forever
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