The Migrating Wildebeest of the Serengeti & the Maasai Mara (Kenya/Tanzania)
(With Slideshow)
Each year the plains of the Serengeti in East Africa thunder and shake as one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in the world unfolds: the stampeding migration of almost one and a half million wildebeest. From the plains of the Serengeti in Kenya, to the hills of the Masai Mara, wildebeest, zebra and gazelle migrate 1,800 miles in search of greener grazing.
No one knows where the wildebeest’s journey really begins, or where it ends. For these wildebeest of the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara In Kenya, life is a continual pilgrimage; a never-ending, moving quest for food and water - fraught with perils along the way. The migration is closely followed by predators, and crossing the crocodile-infested Mara river is a hazardous affair.
One of Nature’s Greatest Spectacles on Earth
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Where in Africa
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