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Serengeti

American  
[ser-uhn-get-ee] / ˌsɛr ənˈgɛt i /

noun

  1. a plain in NW Tanzania, including a major wildlife reserve Serengeti National Park.


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NAIROBI—A Kenyan court dismissed a lawsuit by a Maasai leader who sought to demolish a Ritz-Carlton luxury safari camp, alleging it blocked a key route of the famous Serengeti migration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Another anti-cybercrime operation across Africa, called "Operation Serengeti 2.0" coordinated from Singapore, saw authorities arrest 1,209 cybercriminals who targeted nearly 88,000 victims.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

"The Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo are sources of deep wonder, the equivalent of Antarctica or the Serengeti or the Amazon," says the Australian Marine Conservation Society's Paul Gamblin.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2025

The analyses built on the expertise in epigenetics of the Leibniz-IZW as well as on the long-term research on spotted hyenas in the Serengeti, which started in 1987.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

Not like a small house cat, but like the kind of cat you'd find prowling the Serengeti.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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