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The Great wildebeest migration from the Masai Mara National Reserve in
Kenya to Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is a spectacle of life and
death witnessed by few humans...until now.
Baron
Hugo van Lawick who made the Serengeti his home for over 25 years,
filmed this remarkable epic of survival - the greatest migration of
land animals on the planet - in vivid, riveting detail.
At the
start of the migration the wildebeest herd is one and a half million
strong.
But,
the journey is plagued with predators. Cheetahs stalk and chase the
strays. Hyenas and wild dogs shadow the herd and attack the calves.
Leopards drag their kill into the trees. Lions seem to appear from
nowhere - springing from the tall grasses. And crocodiles - monsters
over 20 feet long - lurk in the shallows of the Grumeti River waiting
for the thirsty herd.
But
just like every year, the wildebeest complete their great African
migration while birthing an incredible half a million young along the
way.
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