Serengeti where they stay for the remainder of the dry season, except that the Thomson's and Grant's gazelles move only east/west. In early November, with the start of the short rains the migration starts moving south again, to the short grass plains of the southeast, usually arriving in December in plenty of time for calving in February. About 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey from Tanzania to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya, a total of . Death is usually from thirst, hunger, exhaustion, or predation. The Serengeti has some of East Africa's finest game areas. Besides being known
Tobeatic Game Reserve Halifax Formation, and Middle to Late Devonian biotite monzogranite and leucomonzogranite. It's surficial geology is largely a stoney till plain and contains many moraines, eskers, hummocks and drumlins Wildlife in the Tobeatic Game Reserve includes eastern moose and white-tailed deer. A book on "Paddling the Tobeatic" was published by Nimbus Publishers. The Tobeatic/Kejimkujik area is also the setting for "The Tent Dwellers", although at that time, neither the Tobeatic Wilderness Reserve nor Kejimkujik National Park existed. Rivers in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area include: Archaeological research shows that the Mi’kmaq people were present in the Tobeatic at least 4500 years ago.