SOUMEN GHOSH
The Story of the Great Wildebeest Migration

What makes a million wildebeest get up and move at once? What is the sense that triggers them to muster the energy to begin a 1000-kilometre trek—to somehow know that it’s the right thing to do? For some reason, a few animals decide to start moving. They just get up and go, and the rest begin to follow. It is a trek, a round trip, of some 1000 kilometers, over two countries (Tanzania and Kenya), across plains where predators—lion, cheetah and leopard—wait to pick them off, over hills, and through rivers with crocodiles waiting; battling disease, starvation, thirst and fatigue. It might simply be instinct.
Whatever the reason, over 1.5 million animals begin a journey that will undoubtedly cause death to many of their own, but will also bring life to many more animals as they follow the rains in search of green nutrient-rich fields that will sustain the next generation.
It’s mid July, and the herds have been trekking across the duvet plains of the Serengeti for over three months

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