The Great Migration
From predator satiation during synchronous calving at Ndutu to the nitrogen-fixing role of 1.5 million wildebeest — the world's greatest ecological process examined in detail.
📍 Serengeti · Ndutu | 🔬 Population Ecology
Field Biology Courses
Science Where It Happens
Are you organizing a field course for your high school or university? We can take the guesswork out of it and ensure your students have a safe, exceptional educational experience. We provide free online classes leading up to your field course to prepare your students, differentiated lesson plans for every level of student, and daily instruction during the trip.
Our curriculum is built around mechanism and process — not just observation. Students become conversant in ecology, geology, and evolutionary biology through structured study topics, peer-teaching, and expert-led interpretation.
A few examples of the study topics we cover
Rift Valley Tectonics
Oldoinyo Lengai's natrocarbonatite lavas, the hyperalkaline chemistry of Lake Natron, and the volcanic ash soils that drive the Great Migration — geology as a living laboratory.
📍 Natron · Ngorongoro | 🌋 Geochemistry
Human Origins
Olduvai Gorge's 2.1-million-year stratigraphic record: Australopithecus boisei, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Oldowan and Acheulean stone tools, and the pulsed climate variability hypothesis.
📍 Olduvai Gorge | 🦴 Evolutionary Biology
African Carnivore Guild
Niche partitioning among lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted hyena, and wild dog. Kill competition, kleptoparasitism, cooperative hunting strategies, and the scavenging vulture guild.
📍 Seronera · Ndutu | 🦁 Behavioral Ecology
Elephants & Baobabs
How African elephants restructure landscapes — from seed dispersal and waterhole creation to the ivory trade's imposed artificial selection for tusklessness and the mysterious baobab die-off.
📍 Tarangire NP | 🐘 Conservation Biology
Maasai Ecology & Culture
Traditional pastoral land tenure as sophisticated rangeland science. Maasai ethnobotanical knowledge, age-set social structure, lion conservation programs, and the Engare Sero footprint site.
📍 Natron · Mto wa Mbu | 🌿 Ethnobiology
Citizen Science
Contribute Real Data
Every Science Safari integrates contribution to active research through Snapshot Serengeti and iNaturalist. Your wildlife photos and observations become part of the scientific record.
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Snapshot Serengeti
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iNaturalist