We are at an epic season when over two million wildebeests and other herbivores like zebras, gazelles among others move in mass number across unforgiving and croc infested Mara River from Tanzania side, Serengeti to Mara in Kenya.
The migration is triggered by region's rains and the animals follow an age-old route in search of fresh grazing and water. This epic journey takes the wildebeest across the Maasai Mara plains in Kenya, all the way south into Tanzania’s Serengeti and the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater, before circling up and around in a clockwise direction.
It is generally believed that the Great Migration is dictated primarily by the wildebeest’s response to the weather. They move after the rains and the growth of new grass, essentially following a natural instinct to find food to stay alive. Some experts believe that the wildebeest are triggered by distant lightning and thunderstorms, but there is no scientific proof of it.
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