The Great Mara River Crossing The Mara River flows through Kenya and Tanzania, intersecting the migration path of wildebeest and other animals in the Serengeti-Masai Mara game reserves. Over two million animals consisting of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle migrate during July through to October. This movement of hundreds of thousands of animals, often dubbed the Great Migration, is one of the greatest spectacles of the natural world. Their journey is considered to be the biggest and the most dramatic of all wildlife crossings, and has been the center of many documentaries. Wildebeest arrive at the Mara River in their tens of thousands, and gather waiting to cross. Occasionally they choose seemingly suicidal places and drown in their hundreds. The crossing points form bottlenecks in which thousands of animals perish through trampling or drowning, and the crocodiles capitalize on this. The Maasai Mara also has one of the largest densities of lion in the world and they along with other carnivores such as hyenas, leopards, and cheetahs that stalk and hunt on the wildebeest. Each year around 1.5 million wildebeest and 300,000 zebra along with other antelope go in search of food and water. Their journey is long and tough and every year an estimated 250,000 wildebeest never make it.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:01:41 +0000
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