The seasons to witness the great wildebeest migration in Tanzania safari, occur in Serengeti national park only where the migrants both wildebeest, antelopes and zebras are moving to Kenya. The migration of wildebeest always varies from year to year in the response of the variations of weather and climate (availability of green pastures and water).
In Tanzania safari,Serengeti is located in northern circuit of Tanzania. It’s the best wildlife sanctuary and a memorable park to visit while you are in Tanzania.
The Great Migration is the ever-moving circular migration of over a million animals across the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The constant movement of columns of wildebeest, joined by a host of companions, follows an age-old route in search of grazing and water. The Great Migration is an annual movement of millions of wildebeests into Tanzania to Kenya. This movement is a continuous process reach year. The spectacle has repeated for thousands of years and is the largest annual movement of wildebeest and zebras anywhere on earth.
The circuit takes the animals from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (although not into the Crater itself) in the south of the Serengeti in Tanzania, up through the Serengeti and across into the Maasai Mara in Kenya and back again. Serengeti National Park is the world-famous site of this yearly phenomenon, where herds of wildebeests, zebras, antelope and more make the dangerous movement.
In Tanzania safari all three groups of migrant grazers have different eating habits;
•First group that eats the top of the tallest grass
•Second group that eat away some of the medium-height grass [middle grass]
•Lastly is almost completely eaten, and the herds move on.
This means each group sticks to their own kind with only a small overlap in their distributions. The grasses of the plains have the highest protein content in the whole of the Serengeti, as well as being high in calcium.In Tanzania safari the Great Migration showcases nature in its most raw form: as herds of animals move across the plains of Africa, through dangerous rivers and over beautiful landscapes, you will be enraptured by Africa.
It is worth noting that the Tanzania safari Great Migration in the Serengeti National Park, takes place all year in some form. Due to its massive size of areas,it is possible to meet herds of wildebeests in different parts of the park. The following are the period or season of the year where migrants moves
Although there is no real beginning or end to this migratory circuit — other than birth and death — it seems reasonable to call the wildebeests’ birthing season the start of the migration. During this time Tanzania is a dry season. This season migration occurs in Kenya. This is the dry season in Tanzania and approximately 1.7 million of antelopes, accompanied by 260,000 zebras and 470,000 gazelles move to the Serengeti’s alleys covered with short grass.
In Tanzania safari by December, they are spread throughout the eastern and southern reaches. In the early months of the new year, the grasses in the deep south of the Serengeti are lush with rain. This draws the herds of wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra and other plains animals. The cycle continues as the calving season starts once again.
In Tanzania safari the wildebeest migration moves from maasai Mara in Kenya towards the south-east part of the Serengeti. This time is also a good mating season for zebras and therefore,vital to the future of these species. Around late January or Early February, the herds occupy the short-grass plains that spread over the lower northern slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater highlands and around Olduvai Gorge. Some 400,000 calves are born here within a period of two to three weeks or nearly 8,000 new calves every day.
In Tanzania safari February, the migration passes through the south part of Serengeti National Park and in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This period is the peak season for fertility for antelopes and important for the formation of the next generation. New antelopes are born during this season, and visitors may see the young walking with the herd, protected from predators and able to run at an incredible speed at only a few days old. By early March the fodder near the Ngorongoro disappears and antelopes have to migrate to the western part of the Serengeti, to the region of the Grumeti River.
In Tanzania safari around April, the wildebeest herds begin to drift northwest toward the fresher grass of the central Serengeti, drawing with them thousands of Zebra and smaller groups of antelope. The big herds of animals move to Seronera - the central part of the Serengeti national park. This period is the cold season due to rainy in Tanzania. Heavy and prolonged rainfalls give animals tens of thousands of square kilometers of fresh grass for their nutrition. Green pastures available everywhere and animals gets a lot of food to consume.
In Tanzania safari,the end of the rain season,animals start to congregate by the Moru Kopjes, near or close to one of the few camps in the Serengeti,that offers migration viewing at this time of year.This time is known as Dunia Camp. Mating season begins toward the end of May and male wildebeest battle head-to-head. Many herds of antelopes continue to move to the west, to the region named as Western Corridor. On their way, they must cross the Mbalageti and Grumeti rivers. The place to be this time is Mbalageti and Grumeti river because it’s the area where migrants cross.It is a truly exciting thing to watch, and seeing it all live rather than seeing on TV.
July is the beginning of the dry season in Tanzania safari.June moves into July, the hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebra continue to head north along the western edge of the park toward an even riskier barrier. the Mara River in the north of the Serengeti. These river crossings are arguably one of the most exciting wildlife events on Earth. They usually begin at the onset of high season in July, but timing all depends on nature.
There are no rains at all and animals continue to move to the north, towards the border with Kenya along the Grumeti region in search of green pastures and water.
In Tanzania safari at the end of August, this amazing cycling of animals reaches the borders of monitoring areas of Ikorongo (where there is the famous German Fort Ikoma.In Tanzania safari,this time the herds have faced the challenge of crossing the Mara River and are spread throughout the Maasai Mara's northern region, with many remaining in the northern Serengeti. At the end of September,the migration reaches the border with Kenya. In October, during the peak of the dry season, most of the animals have migrated to the Maasai Mara in Kenya where there is a lot of fresh water and plenty of grass. However, they wildebeest will face the heavy waters of the Mara River once more as they prepare to cross once again for their return journey southward.
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