Serengeti
Threatened Species!
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African Wild Dog
The wild dog disappeared from the Serengeti nature reserve 1991, the main cause was rabies which killed 2 of the packs. (Sad) Strange thing though - what happened to the 3rd pack is still unknown. There are still some left in the wild but are left with little room to roam and are vulnerable to disease.
African Elephant
During the 1880’s and 1890’s the Ivory trade in East Africa drove African Elephant numbers down. That is why in the 1920’s - 60’s newly arrived park wardens and administrators saw a few lone elephants they thought that they were only recently starting to colonize the Serengeti but was only later when they found hunting records that they realised that they had been there before the 1900’s.
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