Located in eastern Africa, between Kenya and Tanzania, the Serengeti has a 31,080-square-kilometer radius, including the Serengeti National Park and the Masai Mara Wildlife Sanctuary, of which the Masai Mara Wildlife Sanctuary is the largest wildlife sanctuary in Kenya and where indigenous Maasai people live. Tropical monsoon climate, the average minimum temperature of 15 °C, the average maximum temperature of 26 °C, every year from March to June for the rainy season.
Spanning the northern and southern hemispheres of Africa, how are people living on this continent with the last breath of desolation? How is nature adhering to the tragic and natural style of the past, and how is it welcoming the infiltration of civilization? The Garden of Eden in Africa is in the Serengeti, there is no doubt about that. The Sahara is too desolate, South Africa is too remote, if you go to Africa, please go to the Serengeti. The Serengeti wildlife migration is famous; the land of the Serengeti is silent and meaningful, reminiscent of Africa's history of suffering and nationality.
The Garden of Eden of the world is in Africa, and the Garden of Eden in Africa is in the Serengeti, and there is no place that can be more possessed than the Serengeti, or more prehistoric image. The history of mankind is not worth writing here, from the Shang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when China was in a turbulent dynasty, Chinese was creating writing and inventing firearms, Serengeti was mechanically repeating one thing: the comings and goings of all kinds of animals and life and death. This is the Serengeti, a completely and pure corner of the world forgotten by God.
The Maasai people named it "the land of eternal flow", and the Serengeti is a transliteration of this title, and if you can't understand this, look at the coming and going of the animals and the rise and fall of the grass and trees, and the land of the Serengeti is in such a rhythmic change that it feels like a body of water that is at the end of the tide, and it is rain and monsoon that dominates all this.
Located on the plateau of northern Tanzania, Serengeti from east to west is the Ngorongoro Wildlife Sanctuary, Lake Victoria and the Kenyan Masai Mara Nature Reserve. Located in the middle of this strip, the Serengeti is a seasonal savanna that has been responsible for the livelihood and refuge of millions of animals, from pikas, cattle and sheep to foxes, wolves, lions and leopards. The claim that animals are the protagonists of the Serengeti is a slight exaggeration, but it is not an exaggeration.
At the end of May, the dry season in the Serengeti did not come to this land without hesitation. The grasses sow their seeds before they turn yellow, and the shrubs and trees shed their "coats", determined not to provide any shade for the well-fed animals. So the sun began to scorch the land that had been comfortable for a long time during the rainy season, and cracked lines appeared on the silt of the riverbed and tidal flats. Foraging and drinking water became difficult for the plant-eating animals that first came to live in groups, and the increasingly embarrassing famine forced them to choose to flee en masse, often in extremely large queues.
The journey from the Serengeti to Lake Victoria or the Marathara Plateau is often reminiscent of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, an equally arduous and doomed journey that was three times as large as the Egyptian army without Moses' staff. The exodus of plant-eating animals has scorched many of the animals that feed on them, including cunning and vicious coyotes, flocks of lions, cheetahs that are good at running, and crocodiles hiding in the river beach with black hands. This is the last hunting opportunity before the next rainy season, if you can't mix a full belly at this juncture, the next 6 months, starvation is unknown.
This is the order of the animal world, and we can hardly tolerate words other than cruelty. When the brigade's wildebeest scrambles across a crocodile-crawling river beach and leaves behind the bodies of many of its companions, we are truly struck by the almost unreasonable bravery, whether instinctive or collective, that has allowed them to live in the Serengeti, in the paradise of large carnivores, in the name of a humble and prosperous family of plant-eaters. The zebra's phalanx received the lion and leopard's tail in the process of moving, and those phalanxes often lined up in a row of more than a dozen, a wild gallop, the horse's hooves flew between the yellow earth, and the old and weak wounded who fell behind fell into the lion's mouth, the flesh and blood were eaten, so that even the bones had to be licked many times by the hyenas before stopping. The dry season of the Lengeti and its fierce beasts are knife tricks, growing animals as fish meat, either dead or alive and returning with the new grass and trees in the rainy season.
In November, plant life arrived with rain in Serengeti, where even the mighty lions were emaciated, and no one intended to explain what had happened before, so the bright green color flowed back to the land, and the fleeing wildebeest, zebra and antelope also returned. In the unforgettable years of Africa's history, how lonely this annual thrilling animal migration is! If there were to be some eyewitnesses for the Serengeti, the "land of eternal flow," it would be the Maasai, the name of the land.
It is not surprising that the Maasai live outside of our ability to understand, for out of the narrow limitations of experience we define a very small circle of life and crowds, in which the Maasai are not, nor is God in this circle. This people lived in houses piled up with cow dung, dressed in strange costumes and wearing various ornaments around their bodies. In life, they do not separate themselves from the wild animals on all fours, they are the relatives of the pure black faces of the African land.
Mobile Serengeti, where is your black Africa? And on what day can we see "the lion and the lamb lying together"?
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