One local folktale holds that the wildebeest was created using parts left over from other animals. “It was given the head of a warthog, the neck of a buffalo, stripes from a zebra, and the tail ...

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including impala and blue wildebeest," Fletcher said. "We also documented changes in vigilance behavior of the animal if they did not run. In this way, we determined if the animal had its head up ...

A wildebeest can get a smell of a lion ... So when the animal comes, gets in maybe their head, leg, it can kill many, many, many animals. During migration, every day they set 200 wires.

As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from ...

From December to June (the Serengeti's wet season), the animals head south to Naabi Hill and ... The Great Migration involves more than one million wildebeest, zebras, gazelles and a variety ...

A tour group got quite the sight in the wilds of Tanzania while standing just a few feet away from an animal attack in progress. Kristen Torres, owner of the Born to Dream tour guide company, was ...

It was almost a scene from a movie, as it flew for a few metres before smashing into the bank head-first,” Laubscher recalled. The hyena followed suit, with the wildebeest slowing down due to ...

The wildebeest migration across the river has become a premier tourist attraction in Kenya. While tourism is vital to wildlife conservation, vehicles in these numbers disorient and intimidate the ...

Joseph Ogutu is affiliated with the Greater Serengeti-Mara Conservation Society and the One Mara Research Hub. Wildebeest – large African antelopes with distinctively curved horns – are famous ...