Sentences with phrase «largest wildebeest»

There are also plenty of appealing new places to stay, including King Lewanika Lodge (from $ 1,070), in the remote Liuwa Plain National Park, which offers access to the second - largest wildebeest migration after the Serengeti.

Visit in September and you might even catch sight of the world's second largest wildebeest migration — and unlike the Serengeti, it's likely you'll have the plain all to yourself.

Not exact matches

In Vancouver, the Premeditated Gluttony section of the recently opened Wildebeest is devoted to large cuts like the four - person Angus beef tomahawk chop (a Flintstone - sized bone - in rib - eye, so named for its resemblance to the axe).

The wildebeest migration is the largest terrestrial migration on the planet, and others of its kind have largely disappeared as humans have killed off animals or cut off their migration routes.

«I am stunned by the extent of the annual mass wildebeest drownings and their large contribution of [carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus] to the energy budget of the Mara River,» says Gary Lamberti, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Norte Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

The impact of the wildebeest appears to be larger, however; they contribute four times more biomass to the Mara than dying salmon add to British Columbia's rivers, Subalusky notes.

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, it killed 90 % of the cattle and large proportions of domestic oxen used to pull plows, and decimated wild buffalo, giraffe, and wildebeest populations.

Large herds of zebras, wildebeests and Thomson's gazelles migrate in succession across the plains of Tanzania.

The world's largest mass land migration with around two million animals on the move is an awe - inspiring sight, a quite breathtaking spectacle, as wildebeest, zebras, gazelle and eland make their journey from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara.

The combination of the location, the high concentration of wildlife, and the time of year, means there is an excellent chance of seeing the migration and witnessing large quantities of animals, led initially by zebra, then wildebeest, crossing the river in dramatic style.

Does your dream adventure consist of witnessing the magnificent herds of wildebeest stampeding through the Serengeti, are you in search of rare encounters with Africa's largest elephant population in Chobe, or catching remarkable glimpses of wild gorillas as you trek through their natural habitats in Rwanda?

One of the most dramatic stages for a classic African safari is Tanzania's Great Migration, where mighty herds of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebras thunder across the Serengeti plains while chasing the rains in a race for life as they are purchased by a large number of predators.

(03/07/2011) As the world's largest migration in the Serengeti plains — including two million wildebeest, zebra, and Thomson's gazelles — has come under unprecedented threat due to plans for a road that would sever the migration route, a far lesser famous, but nearly as large migration, is being silently eroded just 1,370 miles (2,200 kilometers) north in Ethiopia's Gambela National Park.