Biodiversity

The most common animal: Wildebeest

Image from The Conservation

The second-most common animal: Zebra

Image from Ron Dauphin

One of the least found animals: Lion cub

Image from Jeff Rodgers

One of the least found animals: Cattle

Image from San Diego Zoo

One of the least found animals: Eland

Image from Yathin sk

One of the least found animals: Elephant

Image from Villiers Steyn

This is data from many different camera traps in Grumeti. 51 animals were sighted and recorded into the graph above. As the data shows, this population has a majority of wildebeests and zebras. There appears to be a minority of lions, cattle, elands, and elephants. All of these animals and many more interact and coexist in this community and ecosystem.

I think the distribution is the way it is because wildebeests and zebras both travel in groups of their own during the day, making it easier for them to be caught on camera. The other animals either traveled in smaller groups, alone, or at night. I think I definitely could have collected more data. With the data present, I can say that these animals are quite plentiful.

I took a look at Riley's site for Gorongosa and found that there are much more baboon sightings than Grumeti. She sighted 11 baboons and I only sighted 2. Other than baboons, there appear to be no alike animals sighted between Grumeti and Gorongosa.