Serengeti over 80 percent of the Serengeti. The southeastern area lies in the rain shadow of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area's highlands and is composed of shortgrass treeless plains with abundant small dicots. Soils are high in nutrients, overlying a shallow calcareous hardpan due to natrocarbonatite eruptions from Ol Doinyo Lengai. A gradient of soil depth northwestward across the plains results in changes in the herbaceous community and taller grass. About west, acacia woodlands appear suddenly and stretch west to Lake Victoria and north to the Loita Plains, north of the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The sixteen acacia species vary over this
The Name Game A verse can be created for any name with stress on the first syllable, with "X" as the name and "Y" as the name without the first consonant sound (if it begins with a consonant), as follows: And if the name starts with a "b", "f", or "m", that sound simply is not repeated. For example: "Billy" becomes "Billy Billy "bo-illy""; "Fred" becomes "bonana fanna "fo-red""; "Marsha" becomes "fee fi "mo-arsha"" The song gives no indication of what to do with names where the stress falls on a syllable after the first, like Renee, Maria, or Lebron. The Name Game