Wildebeest

About Wildebeest

The Great Migration is the largest land animal migration on Earth: 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebras, and 500,000 gazelles moving in a continuous clockwise loop through Tanzania and Kenya. Driven by rainfall patterns, the herds calve in the southern Serengeti in February (400,000 calves in 3 weeks), then move north through the western corridor and into the Masai Mara by July. The Mara River crossings, where crocodiles await, are the most dramatic moments. The entire loop covers 1,800 km each year.

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