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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

A cheetah is not usually going to target such a large creature as a wildebeest. Wildebeests can weigh up to 600 pounds. Although cheetahs are fierce, they are much smaller, reaching around 88 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 ...

The huge number of mouths and hooves in wildebeest herds can help to keep vegetation under control that would otherwise fuel wildfires (Credit: Getty Images) When scientists examined the effect ...