Sentences with word «wildebeests»

In July each year, this heart - pounding scene of wildebeests migration repeats itself in Kenya.
Epic spectacles like the great wildebeest migration in Kenya or Tanzania remind you not to take the next 40 years for granted, but to live in the moment.
With wildebeest in the front garden and warthogs in the back garden and Francolins scattered all over - what more could you ask for?
With just 10 beetles, they showed there were blue wildebeest, zebras, mice, cattle, goats, and even humans living nearby, they report this week on bioRxiv, a preprint archive.
The Serengeti hosts the Annual wildebeest Migration which by far is the most amazing natural wonder you can enjoy in these vast plains.
Their path takes them across the Mara River, and some of the crossings are so dangerous that hundreds or thousands of wildebeests drown as they try to traverse the waterway.
Where are the deserts that animals avoid, and the migratory corridors that animals such as wildebeest use to travel from place to place?
You can look on in awe as the annual wildebeest migration thunders past, seeking new grazing in the lush savannahs of the Masai Mara.
Nowhere else in the world can you see elephants gathering around a waterhole at sunset, lion cubs playing in the savannah and wildebeest migrating in their thousands across the plains.
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?
The 11 600 hectares of unique environment is true highland habitat, providing home to a variety of mammals including black wildebeest, eland, blesbok, oribi, springbok and Burchell's zebra — and birds, including the rare bearded vulture (lammergeier) and the equally rare bald ibis, which breed on the ledges in the sandstone cliffs.
Planning to witness the Great Wildebeest Migration in East Africa, experience a Big 5 safari in the Kruger National Park or spend your honeymoon in the Seychelles?
Join our Ngorongoro crater safari tours for the ultimate safari adventure, as the crater floor offers superb game viewing with wildebeest, zebras, buffaloes, gazelles, elephants, rhinos and Africa's big cats all present.
«The migration affects every single process in this ecosystem,» says J. Grant Hopcraft, a landscape ecologist at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom who has studied wildebeest for decades.
When Mark compares Amazon to a lion eating wildebeests, he is merely rephrasing a comment that Jeff Bezos himself made.
Fences are also impractical if lions pursue migratory prey like wildebeest.
It's one of the iconic sights of Africa: hundreds of thousands of wildebeest thundering across the Serengeti in an annual mass migration.
And in East Africa, scientists found that a decline in wildebeest populations in the Serengeti - Mara grassland - savanna system decades ago allowed organic matter to accumulate, which eventually led to about 80 percent of the ecosystem to burn annually, releasing carbon from the plants and the soil, before populations recovered in recent years.
So, why aren't wildebeests faster than cheetahs?
Into the Wild Sleeping out on a hilltop campsite surrounded by East African wildlife, waking at dawn to watch wildebeests gather at the watering hole — it's all part of a good night's rest at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, which hosts «Roar and Snore» safaris on its 2,200 - acre preserve, weekend nights from May through October.
For some reason, not many American travelers — at least those not on expensive wildebeest treks or endangered species trophy hunts — go to Africa.
Wildebeest carcasses and bones release carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus at different rates, fueling many kinds of plant, animal, and microbial growth locally and downstream.
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They retrieved dead wildebeests from the water to test what happened to the various parts over time.
Six thousand years ago, Egyptian lions hunted wildebeests and zebras in a landscape that resembled the Serengeti more than the Sahara.
The honeymoon treehouse overlooks the watering hole on the farm (where wildebeest, zebra and springbok come to drink).
Wildlife ecologist Randall Boone of Colorado State University, who studies wildebeest, was more positive about the development.
Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole.
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.
De Wildebeest Guest House is ideally situated close to Lanseria airport 10 km, TICKETPRO Dome 1,7 km, Cabanga and Blandford Manor conference centre, Olivedale Clinic and local restaurants.Business Parks in the area - Kaya Sand, Meadowbrook 1 km and Northlands.
De Wildebeest Guest House is situated amongst the natural surroundings of North Riding in Randburg.
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.
Why waste the price of a movie ticket when you can see wildebeests cavorting for free from the comfort of your own recliner?
What woman hasn't hobbled into her apartment like a wounded wildebeest after a day in 4 - inch skyscrapers?
It reminded me of how good Disney's hand - drawn craftsmanship can look and, perhaps more surprisingly, its liberal use of the kind of CGI seen in the famous Wildebeest scene in The Lion King didn't actually look that dated (probably because it's combined with said craftsmanship).
«Our restaurant's already based on the sharing format,» says Wildebeest's chef David Gunawan, «and we're just expanding the whole process into a larger format.
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).
Violet is our spirited, boundary - pushing wildebeest
She is a manic and unpredictable wildebeest of a child and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Wildebeests sense cues from their individual members to help guide their collective movement.
Newborn kangaroos are able to climb into their mother's pouch and baby wildebeests can run away from lions, but our babies appear helpless and have to learn most complex actions.
Impressed by the spectacle of wildebeest swarming across the Serengeti?
«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 boon likely extends beyond the river, as vultures and storks move wildebeest - derived nutrients tens of kilometers inland.
On a broader scale, «the [wildebeest] findings have implications for understanding the ecological role of past and present animal migrations,» says David Janetski, an aquatic ecologist at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Assuming the road inside the park is paved and eventually fenced, as has happened elsewhere, the paper predicts the 1.2 million - strong wildebeest population would be split into two and its numbers slashed by one - third.
Plenty of gazelle meat, with the occasional wildebeest, zebra and other game and perhaps the seasonal ostrich egg, says Teresa Steele, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Davis, who analyzed animal fossils at Jebel Irhoud.
What the researcher discovered, to his dismay, was that each splattered wildebeest soon became a target of predators.
Zebras and wildebeests graze the dewy grass; elephants and giraffes munch on acacia leaves; and lions and hyenas survey the scene, looking for their next meal.
«For instance, it is doubtful that a lion the size of T. rex would be able to eat enough wildebeests or elephants without starving to death,» Grady told Live Science.
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