Almost half a million wildebeest are born within a few weeks in the Serengeti ...

How Do Lions Hunt Wildebeest? Wildebeests and zebras are common prey for lions. Wildebeests can sprint up to 50 miles per hour, while zebras typically run at speeds around 40 miles per hour. A lion’s ...

HANOVER, N.H. - Recent efforts to combat habitat fragmentation and poaching have temporarily stabilized wildebeest populations in northern Tanzania, but this iconic migrating species of the African ...

New research shows Mara-Loita white-bearded wildebeest populations have lost roughly 90% of their historic migratory footprint since 2020 due to the construction of fencing and other man-made barriers ...

The Mara wildebeest migration is the newest map published in the Atlas. Dr Jared Stabach, terrestrial science lead with the Smithsonian’s Movement of Life Initiative, has studied the population since ...

Wildebeest are a common sight in eastern and southern Africa, where they spend their days grazing grasses and sipping water from rivers in the Serengeti. At certain times of the year, however, they do ...

Blue wildebeests exist in a variety of colors, despite their name. There are gray, brown, light, and dark wildebeests, but all have a black mane and tail, short hair, a beard, and dark vertical bands ...

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 just ...

Wildebeest crossing the Mara River during the annual great migration. Every year millions will make the dangerous crossing when migrating between Tansania and the Masai Mara in Kenya.© Jane ...

Each June on Tanzania’s Serengeti plains, animals resume a journey they’ve been making for millions of years. It’s the drying of the grasses that triggers them and the scent of rain in the north that ...

Recent efforts to combat habitat fragmentation and poaching have temporarily stabilized wildebeest populations in northern Tanzania, but this iconic migrating species of the African Savannah remains ...