Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is an ecological island whose wildlife populations differ from those that surround it, in subtle but significant ways. Surrounded by Maasai settlements and bomas all across the crater highlands and with steep walls that rise nearly half a kilometre from crater floor to rim, Ngorongoro is like a modern-day Noah’s Ark, cut off from the rest of Africa and preserving populations with characters all their own.

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