Animal migrations have fascinated humans for millennia, from the ‘Great Migration’ of over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebra, and antelope in the Serengeti, to the massing of flamingos in the lakes of the ...

East Africa’s “Great Migration” is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti Mara landscape ...

T. Michael Anderson received funding from the National Geographic Society (grants WW-025R-17 and NGS-52921R-18) and the US National Science Foundation (grant BCS-1461728). Tanzania’s Serengeti ...

Migrating zebras viewed at the Migration Expeditions Camp from African Bush Camps in Nxai Pan National Park, Botswana. Photo Credit: Shaun Stanley When thinking of animal migrations in Africa, the ...

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 ...

Migratory species play a key role in the health of the Serengeti ecosystem in East Africa, but monitoring their populations is a time- and labor-intensive task. Scientists studying these wildebeest ...