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Great Migrations

The animal kingdom is often at its most spectacular when huge numbers of migrating animals fill the open plains, savannahs or in some cases, the skies.

Safari holidays: wildebeest gather for the annual Great Migration, Masai Mara National Reserve

Safari holidays: wildebeest gather for the annual Great Migration, Masai Mara National Reserve

Great migrations

Africa is home to some of the animal kingdom's most awe-inspiring migratory sights, such as the annual Great Migration. But there are other less well known migrations which are just as spectacular in their own right.

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The Great Migration in Africa

Each year the annual Great Migration in Africa sees up to two million wildebeest and zebra undertake a journey of over 1,600 kilometres across Kenya and Tanzania.

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Zebra Migration

Each year up to 25,000 zebra migrate through Botswana's Makgadikgadi and Nxai Pan National Parks in what is one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular sights.

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Zambia's Amazing Bat Migration

Every year, from October until December, eight million Straw-coloured Fruit Bats arrive from the Congo to feed on the wild musuku fruits in Zambia's Kasanka National Park. It is the world's largest mammal migration.

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