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Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Animals: Giraffe, Cheetah, African elephant, Wildebeest
Other mammals: hartebeest and Grant’s gazelle
Birds: Grey-breasted spurfowl, Fischer’s lovebird, Karamoja apalis, and rugus-tailed weaver
Endemic species: Scheffler’s dwarf gecko and Mpwapwa worm lizard
Endemic species are important because they have higher risk of extinction and they create the higher level of diversity -
It is made up of three terrestrial ecoregions: Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets; Serengeti volcanic grasslands; Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets.
Climate: wet/dry; distinct dry season when most of the plants die; rainy season begins in May when the plants flourish and the animals migrate to find food; temperature range of 68 degrees to 86 degrees
Size: 221,000 square miles -
The wet season does not have as much rain as usual.
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There is drought due to the lack of rain the following year.
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Vegetation is low. Plants begin to die because of the lack of water.
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Because of lack of food, the primary consumers (herbivores) begin to leave the area. This is followed by the secondary consumers (carnivores) since their food source has left as well.
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The wet season begins again. Rain is making a comeback!
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Producers begin growing again.
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Slowly the primary consumers return.
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Slowly the secondary consumers return.
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Everything is back into the natural flow of the biome.
