Do you really understand why The Great Wildebeest Mara Migration is referred to as the greatest movie to ever exist? Let me set the scene for you; This great spectacle is one daunting journey. You’d think that the grazers; wildebeests and zebras, just get to cross the river one at a time or even, very peacefully. No, they wait for one courageous member to make the jump which they then follow suit, thousands and thousands at a time going on for hours and hours without stopping. The scariest expectation, sadly, is that the predators, crocodiles, lions and other cats wait in the water and on both sides for the weaker ones, the calves or even their next meal. The muddy waters pose a challenge since navigating a mushy riverbed without getting stuck is an extreme sport. The ravine where the wildebeests climb to make it on the other side is quite steep, which forces them to go all the way back and relaunch with newer momentum; which already means that the exhaustion might peak and that means the predators, mushy river and steep ravine all over again. This migration is the movement of wildebeests, thousands of wildebeests every single year where they follow an old- age route in search of water and pasture within the two ecosystems, Masaai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. This odyssey is important since it signifies the continuity of the species and their calves; through quantity and quality of grassland. In actuality, the Great Migration is a yearly cyclical event in which rain-fed wildebeest and other plains game follow the path of the eastward flowing Serengeti, which runs through the northwest of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, then back up through the east and central Serengeti, up to the Masai Mara, and back
Do you really understand why The Great Wildebeest Mara Migration is referred to as the greatest movie to ever exist? Let me set the scene for you;This great spectacle is one daunting journey. You’d think that the grazers; wildebeests and zebras, just get to cross the river one at a time or even, very peacefully.
