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Video of a wildebeest feeding its calf. Wildebeest do not form permanent pair bonds and during the mating season, or rut, the males establish temporary territories and try to attract females into them. These small territories are about 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft; 0.74 acres), with up to 300 territories per 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi ...
The complete migration route is around 800 km (500 mi). South of this migration route covers the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where around half a million wildebeest are born between January and March. By March, at the beginning of the dry season, roughly 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras start to migrate north towards Maasai Mara in Kenya.
Nature's Great Events is a wildlife documentary series made for BBC television, first shown in the UK on BBC One and BBC HD in February 2009. The series looks at how seasonal changes powered by the sun cause shifting weather patterns and ocean currents, which in turn create the conditions for some of the planet's most spectacular wildlife events.
Stunning footage shows the moment a herd of wildebeest charged across a body of water during their annual migration across savanna in southwest Kenya.This video by Geoff Mayes, who runs camping ...
Blue wildebeest on migration in Kenya, 2017. Mass migrations take place, or used to take place, by the following mammals: [1] Africa: Hartebeest; Springbok; Black wildebeest; Blue wildebeest; Blesbok; Tiang; Burchell's zebra; Quagga (extinct) Thompson's gazelle; Mongalla gazelle; White-eared kob; Grant's gazelle; Scimitar-horned oryx; Giant ...
Mass migration occurs in mammals such as the Serengeti 'great migration', [31] an annual circular pattern of movement with some 1.7 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of other large game animals, including gazelles and zebra.
During dry seasons, both black and white rhinoceros, warthog, greater kudu, impala, Burchell's zebra, blue wildebeest and a herd of elephants are seen. During rain seasons, the rich birdlife of 450 species is represented. Prides of lions, hyenas, zebras or more rarely Southeast African cheetahs are sighted as well. This region is reputed for ...
Wildebeest crossing the river during the Serengeti migration. Since the 1970s, each year around the same time, the circular great wildebeest migration begins in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of the southern Serengeti in Tanzania and loops clockwise through the Serengeti National Park and north towards the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. [14]