Serengeti migration: Fire, rain affect how zebras, wildebeest and gazelles make journey
Several competing hypotheses have emerged in the past five decades about the Serengeti migration.
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Several competing hypotheses have emerged in the past five decades about the Serengeti migration.
Lessons from the Serengeti herds may help conservationists manage migratory herbivore populations.
<p>Upending the prevailing theory of how and why multi-species mass-migration patterns occur in Serengeti National Park, researchers from Wake Forest University have confirmed that the millions-strong wildebeest population pushes zebra herds along in competition for the most nutrient-dense grasses. The study resulting from this research, “Interplay of competition and facilitation in grazing succession by migrant Serengeti herbivores,” appears today in the peer-reviewed journal <em>Science</em>.</p>