Once the rainy season starts, they begin moving north, crossing the Mara River ... Their travels start as the wildebeest begin mobilizing on the Serengeti. On both their northward and southward ...

They are so skittish when they come to the crossing." Suzi Eszterhas At the Serengeti National Park, wildebeest perform rituals of courtship as well as feed on the new grass brought by the rains.

Considered one of the world's largest animal migrations, The Great Migration involves more than one million wildebeest, zebras, gazelles and a variety of other animals traversing the Serengeti ...

Guided by the rains and the promise of green pastures, wildebeest travel hundreds of miles through the Serengeti and Maasai ... To many onlookers, a river crossing might seem like a perfect ...

Join veteran safari guide Jean Du Plessis on an astonishing trip through the Serengeti as he follows migrating wildebeest on their annual odyssey ... including its treacherous and drama-filled ...

Over a million wildebeest plus half as many zebra and gazelle follow the rains northward from the Serengeti in Tanzania ... this journey is the Mara River. Crossing points form bottlenecks in ...

This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED: Sick or injured, it’s wandering miles from its herd on the Serengeti Plain of ...

Although this sounds unfathomable, it is nevertheless a breaking point in the phenomenal river-crossing ... some 250,000 baby wildebeest will be born at the Ngorongoro and Serengeti national ...