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Serengeti migration

Where the grassis greener every year more than 1.5million Serengeti wildebeests, 600,000 serengeti zebras, serengeti gazelles, migrate in gigantic herd, describe a huge oblong as they migrate from south east part of Serengeti national park, northern to Tanzania. This is annual Serengeti migration is probably the greatest wild life spectacle on earth today. No one knows for sure what triggers the Serengeti migration; it’s something the animals know far better than we do. What’s certain is that the herds in the migration know that the grass is greener on the other side, and they know when and where.

 Serengeti migration map

  

Serengeti Migration /December to March

From early December ,the animals in the Serengeti migration are on the short grass plains in the southeast ,around Ndutu and Naabi gate ,where calving will take  place from late January to early February .About 80 per cent of the wildebeest females give birth at the same time ;within a two -week span. this is ensure that most of the calves will survive since the number  of new born and weakened or disadvantaged mothers who perish  will be enough to keep predators satisfied with food, giving the other calves in the herd enough time to gain strength and adapt to the world .

When the calves are just a few hours old, they can run as fast  as their parents and they start grazing before they are a week old .This means that there  is a sudden rise in the number of grazers, which quickly depletes the local food resources, forcing the herds to start looking for greener pasture in the north and west.  

  

Serengeti migration /January through April

The waterholes still retain plentifully water from the shot rains of October/November into December. The plain are green and dotted with flowers. The old bones of predators' victims are obscured by hundreds of thousands of Serengeti migrating animals. The herds in the Serengeti migration remain dispersed as individuals or family units in the southeast plains, moving back and forth within the long rains, which usually begin in March, come to an end in late May or early June


 

Serengeti migration /May to June

        
This is when the Serengeti migration begins. As the dry season approaches in mid-May ,both the pasture and water in the southeastern Serengeti plain dry out .The animals respond to the new condition by forming into huge multitudes and begin migrating to north and west ,toward the northern border and toward Lake Victoria...

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The route of the animals in the Serengeti migration varies little from year to year. First; the animals traverse the alkaline lake Ndutu, the pour out into three major columns, along Simiyu River, then northwest along the Mbalangeti River and Seronera valley. The animals in the Serengeti migration move in long columns, often single file and usually following a leader, usually a mature bull. A file of these animals can be five to six kilometers long, an unforgettable memory for the observer.

A wide lens camera is helpfully here. As the movement gain momentum annual rutting and mating takes place. The adult Males establish territories perhaps only 30 meters across, by energetically scratching bare patches on the ground, and then defend them against other males. They try to keep a small group of females within their territories. The scene becomes confused as the survival imperative leads them toward grass and water while the productive imperative requires them to define individual territories and protect their reproductive rights within those territories. The one requires a mass movement, but the other tends toward the establishment of smaller groups, generally of individual males and their’ wives''

Serengeti migration/August to September  

In case conditions are very good, meaning there is plenty of grass and water, the herds within the  Serengeti migration will be spread out all the way from Seronera to the Mara River and often spreading out across a broad front. Some of the animals within the Serengeti migration heads through Grumeti reserve and Ikorongo. Others north through the heart of the great Serengeti national Park

 Serengeti wildebeest crossing Grumet river

The Serengeti migration herds spread out across the northern Serengeti where the Mara River provides Serengeti migration with its most serious obstacle. This river gushes through the northern Serengeti. Watching the frantic herds of the wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River can be very spectacular, there are often scenes of great panic and confusion among the herds within the Serengeti migrations

Serengeti migration /November to December   

When the November short rains start in north Serengeti, the animals in the Serengeti migration begin their trek back to the south. The herds in the migration leave the area by various routes in long columns, passing the Lobo area before arriving once again on the shorter grass plains that stretch from Seronera to the Ngorongoro highlands. The animals in the Serengeti migration arrive here in December when the long  rains are usually still on, and most of the wildebeests  females as one of the animals in the Serengeti migration give birth here in late January and early February.