Question

What?? Lions, wildebeest, zebras, and giraffes? What does the Serengeti have to do with marine biology?

It might be better to reverse that question: what can marine biology tell us about the Serengeti?

As it turns out, quite a lot.

Answer 1

Two vast areas of north pacific ocean, one off the west coast of the united states and the other between the Hawai and Alaska have been revealed as marine counterparts of East Africas serengeti plain. Teeming with life this oceanic hotspot provides major migration corridors for large marine predators ranging from tuna to whales.

Between 2000 and 2009, the species were tracked under the tagging of pacific predators programme part of census of marine life international collaboration. Electronic tags attached to the animals recorded their movement and water conditions around them including temperature , salinity and depth.