In 1983, during a devastating drought, at least 50,000 wildebeest ... stampede across the flanking hillside, trailing clouds of dust. Something has spooked them, and the zebras, too. The zebra ...

Or the giant wildebeest? Perhaps most strangely of all ... Africans never domesticate their own species of wild horse, the zebra? Zebra are closely related to the domesticated horse, sharing ...

These herds often graze with other species, and a quarter of a million zebra join a million wildebeest to follow the rains in the Great Migration from the Serengeti to the Mara and back.

Over a million wildebeest plus half as many zebra and gazelle follow the rains northward from the Serengeti in Tanzania to the Mara, and back again in October. The single greatest hurdle to the ...