
On safari in Tanzania, I counted the animals that I saw during a 40-minute period while I was on the Serengeti Plains. • The following slide lists those totals…
Waterbuck (12) • Impala (24) • Zebra (52) • Thompson’s Gazelle (415) • Giraffe (7) • Baboon (27) • Lions (3) • Vultures (4)
Consider the relative abundance of each organism I saw. What might explain why I saw so many more herbivores than carnivores during that sampling period in the Serengeti?