Wildlife
The Great Migration: Serengeti's Yearly Journey
Two million hooves, one ancient rhythm
Wanjiru Kamau 19 min 4.9May 30, 2025
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Every year, over a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra follow the rains in a circular journey across the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. This is the science and the spectacle behind nature's greatest migration.
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Narrator: It begins with the smell of rain — and two million animals begin to move as one.
Narrator: At the Mara River, crocodiles wait, and the crossing becomes a test of nerve and timing.
Narrator: Behind every herd walk the predators who have shaped this rhythm for millennia.
Narrator: By the time the circle completes, a new generation is already walking it.
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Wanjiru Kamau
Kenya
Wildlife biologist and conservation storyteller.
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