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Serengeti

Serengeti
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About Serengeti

The Serengeti is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania and extending to southwestern Kenya. The protected area within the region includes approximately 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi) of land, including the Serengeti National Park and several game reserves. The Serengeti hosts one of the world's largest land animal migration, which helps secure it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.

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He'd basically been, I think we can say. Are there any really incongruous lyrics in the song? I can't remember how it goes. There are a few. I hear the rain is down in Africa, is that it? Yeah. The Serengeti is in the wrong place, I can't remember what the lyric is. Something rises over the mountain, Killamangaro over the Serengeti, I think, which isn't too correct. Close enough. It's all Africa. Yeah. Okay.

from 574: No Such Thing as Pyramids in Johannesburg, 2025-03-13 at 00:55:52 · read transcript

Other times Serengeti came up

  1. We've known for a long time that they kind of hang out on these African animals like giraffe and water buffalo and stuff like that, but they've only just found out that they stay there overnight as well. That comes from a multi-year camera trap study in Tanzania, Serengeti National Park, and so they're putting the cameras on these animals in the middle of the night and they found that the birds stay there.

    228: No Such Thing As Seatbelts On Your Sofa, 2018-08-03 · listen

  2. The lion's prowling around, and who's it gonna go for? It's gonna go for the weakest Antelope. Everyone's running away, but it's gonna go for the weakest one. Is that me? It might be, because this is a very tortured metaphor for using ExpressVPN, because what is a cafe with an unsecured Wi-Fi network if it isn't the Serengeti? It's the obvious metaphor. It's the first thing you think of when you're in a cafe. Right.

    588: No Such Thing As A Punk Monk, 2025-06-19 · listen

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