“It’s not a mathematical calculation,” says my seasoned guide Allan Dawson, his brow furrowing as he smooths out a giant battered map of migration patterns over the dinner table. A bite-sized pakora ...

The Great Migration Numbers Are Far Lower Than Previously Thought A groundbreaking 2023 study using artificial intelligence ...

It was what the guides in Serengeti National Park call a “small crossing” — slight in both the number of animals involved (no more than 100) and the number of humans who witnessed it (just a handful).

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). To a soundtrack of thundering hooves and panicked brays, wildebeest plunge into the muddy Mara River, churning the water as sly ...

The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is one of the world's most iconic wildlife destinations, renowned for hosting the Great Migration—an awe-inspiring annual journey of over 1.5 million wildebeest ...

More than a million wildebeest annually embark on a 500-mile migration, instinctively following the same paths each year. Photo by Nick Kleer Dozens of safari tour groups in Serengeti National Park ...

East Africa’s “Great Migration” is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti Mara landscape ...

T. Michael Anderson received funding from the National Geographic Society (grants WW-025R-17 and NGS-52921R-18) and the US National Science Foundation (grant BCS-1461728). Tanzania’s Serengeti ...