The Masai Mara is located in the southern Kenya tourism circuit
right in the midst of the vast savannah landscape with unending vistas of grass,
velds supports the highest numbers of wildlife in Kenya Masai warrior country.
The sheer numbers of the fearful, leaping and kicking wildebeest catches the crocodile
by surprise forcing them to give way from the stampede and guaranteed death from
trampling. Since food is moving, the predators, including the awesome African
lion accompany the blue wildebeest across valleys, velds and rivers as they eat
the sick, weak, old and the lost ones in the Africa’s grandest wildlife
march.
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Nothing is as breathtaking as Observing the Wildebeest River
crossings, Carnage mainly result mainly from the stampede drowning and breaking
the spines of others already in the river. This keeps the crocodiles happy for
the next month or two. I guess they must be impatiently watching their calendars
by now for the next annual wildebeest’s migration in the Masai Mara Wildebeests
usually begin their migration in late June To July pouring into Masai Mara game
Reserve where fresh, tender and mineral rich grass is plentiful.
The early movement is because the plains of Serengeti have exhausted its grass
due to the alarming rising population of the animals. The animal population is
about four millions. In the past the animals headed to Serengeti in October. Following
their natural instinct, the wildebeests, zebras and gazelles migrate in millions
over a large expanse of land covering 10,000 square miles every year in search
of fresh grass and water. They travel clock wise, covering the Masai Mara in Kenya
and the Serengeti in Tanzania. The spectacle of this Migration can only be appreciated
when individually witnessed. It is only in the Masai Mara that a herd of elephants
will graze in the Masai Mara.
