Conservation ecologist Grant Hopcraft – a professor at the University of Glasgow, who’s been studying the movement of wildebeest across Tanzania and Kenya for the past 26 years – shows me a map of ...
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Wildebeest on the edge: Why one of Africa’s greatest migrations has collapsed by 90%
For generations, the movement of animals across Africa on seasonal migrations has been one of the best-known natural ...
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Millions of wildebeests choose this 15-foot 'suicide' cliff over safer river crossings
Quick Take Completing the 500-mile loop is a non-negotiable requirement for 2 million wildebeests every year. Navigating a 15 ...
NAIROBI, KenyaNAIROBI, Kenya — Tanzania’s Serengeti is a vast plain dotted with acacia trees and watering holes, where wildebeest and zebra gather in huge herds for annual migrations. But ...
Attendees will be treated to an African ecosystem lecture focusing on the Serengeti wildebeest migration during the weekly Harlow Summer Seminar Thursday, July 6, at the University of Wyoming-National ...
Wildebeest migration has shrunk by 90% in Kenya's Maasai Mara due to fences being built, reveals new research. The annual spectacle - a magnet for eco tourists - has seen a "dramatic" decline over the ...
If you had asked me before going on safari what I was most excited to see, my answer would have been lions. But after having gone on a five-day safari in Tanzania last month, I'm convinced I had it ...
A new study finds that a proposed road cutting through Serengeti National Park would likely have devastating consequences for one of the world’s last great migrations. According to the study the road ...
Each year, thousands of wildebeest drown while making their annual migration through the Serengeti. New research shows how the resulting two million pounds of rotting flesh performs a crucial role in ...
In the African Serengeti, wildebeest give rise to algae and crocodiles, and mass drownings of wildebeest are both tragic and miraculous. It's all a part of the circle of life, to borrow a phrase from ...
This breakthrough study shows how wildebeest are the keystones to the Serengeti. In the 1960s, ecologist Tony Sinclair made a breakthrough discovery when he observed a huge population surge of ...
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