A Place Like No Other: Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti

While on his first research trip to the Serengeti in 1965, Anthony R.E. Sinclair decided to dedicate his life's work to understanding how the expanse of more than 19,000 square kilometers beginning in northern Tanzania functions. Now a professor emeritus of zoology at University of British Columbia, Sinclair joined a group of scientists that would ultimately discover biological principles that govern the plains, savannas, and woodlands of one of the most-biodiverse ecosystems on the planet-principles that govern all the natural world. This volume presents discoveries made during more than half a century of study, from unearthing how the Serengeti, one of the few remaining examples of the last ice age (roughly 2.5 million to 11,700 years ago), has continued to exist relatively unchanged to describing methods used to grasp what prompts annual wildebeest migrations, all the while offering insights that can be applied to repairing habitats throughout the world.