Great Migration: the greatest show of nature

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Primero debieron ser unos mil ejemplares. Pastaban mientras caía la noche no muy lejos de la puerta de entrada del parque. “¿Está es la gran migración?, le pregunto a Wilson, el chófer de loveliveafrica y nuestro compañero de viaje. “No, este es un grupo pequeño”, me responde mientras yo no alcanzó a ver el final de la manada de cebras y ñus.

No me engañaba, In the following three days of touring the Serengeti I was able to see the magnitude of the so-called great migration. Round, siguiendo el ciclo de las lluvias, se desplazan más de dos millones de ungulados que llevan con ellos una explosión de vida animal.

Following the cycle of rainfall moving over two million ungulates

It is a unique, one of those things you have to see before you die. At one time our car got into the middle of a large herd of tens of thousands of copies. It was impressive to see around us, ran, grazed. Just at that place, in two different trees, were three leopards watching the scene. Two young in the branches of an acacia and acacia mother right in the next.

That afternoon we climbed up memory viewpoint and photographed the vast Serengeti savannah filled with points as far as the eye could no longer. It was the largest group scattered in a few square miles devouring the green that surrounded. The previous day, the group had passed before our wonderful Dunia Camp.

We photographed the vast savanna full of points far as the eye could no longer

The Great Migration is also a balance to the ecosystem. For where they spend the grass is cut naturally and the field is constantly subscriber. Herds see them on all sides. Row, going, with the zebras commanding. "The wildebeest follow them because they are smarter and see better", Wilson explains. "They like to be close to them".

On one occasion, returning some rocks where there were five lions, stumbled with a dead zebra. Just died. Perhaps a cobra, perhaps a disease. We decided to wait for almost 30 minutes to see what happened. They vultures, It was spectacular to see them descend by the dozen and fight to sink their beaks into the flesh. Suddenly, one of the vultures started Zebra stomach, always full of gas to have a single stomach, and there was an explosion of air. All vultures fled terrified by the explosion. And there we were, glued, see all.

All vultures fled terrified by the explosion

But the best came at the end. Serengeti Road Aerodrome to catch a flight to Zanzibar found that scene one always has in mind for television documentaries. Tens of thousands of wildebeest and zebra were crossing a river. Suddenly, part of the herd starts stampeding jogging and jumping over each other as they cross the waters. His own hooves are making a hole in the mud and find it increasingly more difficult to cross the flow. Some who get stuck in the mud. Well until one, randomly, all decide to stop and stand still after him.

Then, those in the mud out of the water and some babies retorceden looking for their mothers who did not cross. There's like a silence, a break, until suddenly a wildebeest, only one, starts running and drags behind him thousands of them to cross the waters again. So it goes in an infinite game where again stopped again a few thousand copies then return after running. Great. A come and go from the highest concentration of life that never beheld.

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