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About Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park is the sixth largest national
park in Tanzania,
it is located in Manyara Region. The name of the park originates from
the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The
Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry
season. The Tarangire Ecosystem is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest
and zebras.
During the dry season thousands of animals concentrate in Tarangire National
Park from the surrounding wet-season dispersal and calving areas.
It covers an area of
approximately 2,850 square kilometers (1,100 square miles.) The landscape is
composed of granitic ridges, river valley, and swamps. Vegetation is a mix of Acacia
woodland, Commiphora-Combretum woodland, seasonally flooded grassland,
and Baobab trees.Tarangire National Park lies 120 km south of Arusha,
along The Great North Road highway, and is very popular for day trips from the
town. Tarangire offers a wide variety of wildlife in its area of 2,600 sq. km.
As in all ecosystems, the vegetation and the types of animals you find are
closely correlated. The principal features of the park are the flood plains and
the grassland, mainly comprising of various types of acacia trees, and a few
scattered baobabs, tamarind and the sausage trees. The Tarangire River, after
which the park is named, provides the only permanent water for wildlife in the
area. When the Maasai Steppes dry up with the end of the long rains in June,
migratory animals return to the Tarangire River, making Tarangire National Park
second only to Ngorongoro in the concentration of wildlife. This period
stretches between June and November and it is the best season for game viewing
in Tarangire.
The most common animals found in the
park include zebras, wildebeest, lions, leopards, waterbucks, giraffe,
elephants, gazelles, impala, gerenuk, lesser kudu and the beautiful
fringe-eared Oryx. You may be lucky to spot the tree-climbing python, for which
the park is famous, or the kudu and the roan antelope which are rare species in
Northern Tanzania. Over 300 species of birds have been recorded in the Park.
The park is famous for its high
density of elephants and baobab trees. Visitors to the park in the June to
November dry season can expect to see large herds of thousands of zebra,
wildebeest and Cape buffalo. Other common resident animals
include waterbuck, giraffe, dik-dik, impala, eland, Grant's gazelle, vervet monkey,
banded
mongoose, and
olive baboon. Predators in Tarangire include African lion, leopard, cheetah, caracal, honey badger, and African wild dog.Home to more than 550 bird
species, the park is a haven for bird enthusiasts. The park is also famous for
the termite
mounds that dot
the landscape. Those that have been abandoned are often home to dwarf mongoose. In 2015, a giraffe that is
white due to leucism was spotted in the park. Current wildlife research
projects in the park include the Tarangire
Elephant Project,
Tarangire Lion Project, and Masai Giraffe Conservation Demography Project.
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