WILDEBEEST

As the wildebeest migration approaches the river, they know there is danger lurking in the water. Nile crocodiles move towards the herd's crossing points at this time of year and wait for the big arrival.

As the wildebeest herd moves north through the border regions with Tanzania, it faces a human threat: an invisible web of wire snares. Poachers sneak across the fenceless border from Tanzania to hunt animals for bush meat, using wire snares.

The wildebeest migration across the river has become a premier tourist attraction in Kenya. While tourism is vital to wildlife conservation, vehicles in these numbers disorient and intimidate the wildebeest’s behavior.

Witness the great wildebeest migration in East Africa, the most impressive mass movement of land animals on Earth. Travel with two Maasai guides who expose today’s conflict between people and wildlife and share new ideas for co-existence.

In the 1960s, ecologist Tony Sinclair made a breakthrough discovery when he observed a huge population surge of wildebeest in the Serengeti. He found that the wildebeest were the key to keeping the ecosystem balanced and that keystone species could be prey as well as ...

Puzzles' young pack turns their attention to bigger prey. By working together, they manage to take down a wildebeest calf, a feat that is rarely attempted.

Go inside one critical moment to discover how a lion is able to bring down its prey, a hulking adult wildebeest.