Research Paper On Wildebeest

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The wildebeest boast are “the largest mammal migration in the world”. The annual migration of wildebeest comes on Tanzania’s Serengeti Plains and Kenya’s Maasai Mara. This animal looks for the fresh grass of the habitat where it migrates, it is also guided by rainfall that occurs in those times. There are several races of wildebeest. The species forming the large herds of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem of Kenya and Tanzania is known as the western white-bearded wildebeest. The wildebeest migrate in the months of January, February and March since it is the point of reference to get started. It also can be found in the plains and acacia savannas of Eastern Africa. The physical characteristics that this animal have are that is a member of the antelope

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