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Wildebeest Migration Kenya: phenomenal wildebeest migration Kenya
By Robert Muhoho
Wildebeest Migration to and back from Serengeti into the Maasai Mara is the single most popular wildlife spectacle in Kenya. The Wildebeest Migration is such a phenomenon it involves movement of over 1 million wildebeest. It’s awesome to see the animals Crossing plains and rivers in the Mara wildebeest migration. River crossings are the most spectacular where the wildebeest jump into rivers full of crocodiles and surging currents.
The Wildebeest Migration
What gives the wildebeest its worldwide repute is not its body structure however, but the sheer numbers and spectacle created by its migration. The animals migrate between the Serengeti and Mara Savannahs in Tanzania and Kenya respectively, in search of grass and water. It is estimated that over 1 million of these animals are on the move during the annual migration between June and October.
Wildebeest River Crossing
The most dramatic and memorable safari experience is when you observe the migrating wildebeest at the several Mara river crossings. Numbers upon numbers of wildebeest gather at such crossings unsure of their next move. The crossings are such notorious spots that the gnus have developed a self preservation instinct over time.
Wildebeest will amass in their thousands at banks of river Mara which is rife with the dreaded Nile crocodile and raging currents. Put in the swift current, eminent stampedes and jaw snapping crocodiles in this picture and you get a guaranteed recipe for mass genocide at such river crossings. The Maasai Mara River is usually awash with bloated mass of wildebeest carcass that crocodiles feast on for days on end.
Over 250,000 of the wildebeest die from drowning, stampede, crocodiles and the predators every year. But even this annual carnage is not enough to reduce their numbers. The wildebeest deaths during migration are replenished by the over 400,000 births a year. The deaths during migration are now considered as a natural population check; natural selection at its best.