Most unusual animal migrations – Africa’s wildebeest travel around the Serengeti, mass movement of humpback whales between their Antarctic feeding & sub-tropical breeding grounds. Golden jellyfish of Palau’s famous Jellyfish Lake perform a unique daily migration that follows the sun’s arc across the sky. Distinctive black & gold monarch butterflies migrate from Canada & US to over-wintering sites in Mexico & California, where they huddle together in trees by the millions. A spectacular sight.
Arctic terns depart breeding grounds in Greenland to fly to Weddell Sea in Antarctica, the longest migration route of any animal. Birds feed from the water while on the wing, don’t fly direct, take a 43,000 mile route, a journey equal to 3 return trips to the moon over an average tern’s lifespan.
Across the Caribbean, clawless red crustaceans undergo a migration under the sea, line up in queues, march into deeper water across the ocean floor. Pink flamingos of Africa flock to Great Rift Valley lakes of Africa, Kenya’s Lake Bogoria to feed on blooms of blue-green algae before flying to Lake Natron in Tanzania. A moving sea of pink, truly breathtaking. A hammerhead shark travels miles from Florida to the Atlantic. A mass gathering of nomadic fish between Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, Colombia’s Malpelo Island & Costa Rica’s Cocos Island – the hammerhead triangle.
Skies of Africa go dark as over 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats make their pilgrimage from the Congo Basin to Kasanka National Park in Zambia. The largest mammalian migration on earth. Thousands of red-sided garter snakes travel miles to hibernate in huge dens in Canada, the largest snake gathering in the world. An inexplicable, incredible world of animals.