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Migration fowl: Do not stand in the way!
According to the dictionary, the migration of animals - is the movement of living organisms caused by the change in the conditions of existence of or in connection with the passage of the development cycle. But what is beautiful! Hundreds and thousands of animals, birds and fish gather in herds, swarms and schools and go on a long journey, bewitching photographers.
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1. Africa: white-bearded wildebeest migration. Every year more than two million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras running after seasonal rains to water bodies, skirting the 485 km loop around Tanzania and Kenya.
2. Christmas Island may seem tiny in the Indian Ocean, but there are more than 50 million red crabs that make one of the most spectacular migrations. Traveling from the depths of the forest to the coast of the island, these crabs are fiery red size of a saucer struggling with fierce ants getting to the water and back again in a year.
3. Falkland Islands: black-browed albatross soar on their two-meter wings to land for mating. They were closely watched by predatory southern mountain caracara, which all winter waiting for the eggs and chicks. Female male waiting on dry land, to keep watch the egg until it flies to the sea and come back with a full beak fish.
4. Christmas Island: every year millions of red crabs crawling over rocks and cliffs into the water.
5. Michoacan, Mexico: no monarch butterfly will not be able to complete the migration from Mexico to the north of Canada and back. Instead generations make this trip to the baton.
6. Starting your journey off the coast of Alaska, the Pacific walrus, whose body has not been created for the long voyage, using drifting ice floes for resting and mating during the migration to the coasts of Russia and back. But in recent years, the ice becomes smaller, and it is not enough at all walruses.
7. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming West. Earlier pronghorns were many, they were proud and free to migrate. Now this ancient migration supports a herd of 200 animals. Their migration from the mountains to the valleys and back has always been difficult, but now it has only worsened since on their way any fences, borders, rivers and other obstacles that lead to the extinction of this rare species.
8. Sahara desert: rare elephants of Mali make the longest migration on earth - 490 km around the heart of Mali in West Africa. The only way to survive here - move from one source of water and food to another.
9. Botswana, Africa: zebra migration in Botswana has been busy in the film to create a movie for «National Geographic». Many young mothers usually can not stand this long journey.
10. Mexico is one of the most feared predators of the deep sea - the great white shark - is also one of the largest migrant. It can travel thousands of kilometers in the open ocean, traveling each year from Hawaii to northern Mexico.
11. Azores, Portugal: sperm can travel over a distance of several hundreds of thousands of kilometers of ocean to ocean. Traveling alone most of my life, males each year sail to the Azores, joining the other, and then together they go to females, who are waiting for them.
12. Falkland Islands: red-adult penguins Rockhopper every day go to the sea and back to eat, and then climb the steep cliffs where they are hidden from the winds chicks. Three months later, the penguins jump into the sea again for the new season, and their chicks, trying to avoid the albatross, will test its wings, flying away from the land on which they can not return in the next 10 years
13. The mysterious whale shark - the largest fish in the sea. As though ironically it may be, its survival depends on small creatures. Whale sharks feed on plankton.
14. Upper Mississippi River Valley: white pelicans breed in North America and migrate south for the winter, will fly to Central America in flocks of about 150-180 individuals.
15. Pacific walruses travel according the movement of the ice. As the ice expands in the winter, they travel south. When he breaks down and leaves in spring and summer, they are returning to the north.
16. Jellyfish Lake, Palau five million jellyfish swim in the lake every day, following the east to the west in the morning and afternoon during the amazing migration. Nights jellyfish sink to a depth of 13 meters, absorbing nutrient-rich bacteria that are essential for the survival of their bodies
17. Michoacan, Mexico: thanks to new technologies, migration of monarch butterflies before us in amazing detail. allowing viewers to appreciate their beauty and grace.
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1. Africa: white-bearded wildebeest migration. Every year more than two million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras running after seasonal rains to water bodies, skirting the 485 km loop around Tanzania and Kenya.
2. Christmas Island may seem tiny in the Indian Ocean, but there are more than 50 million red crabs that make one of the most spectacular migrations. Traveling from the depths of the forest to the coast of the island, these crabs are fiery red size of a saucer struggling with fierce ants getting to the water and back again in a year.
3. Falkland Islands: black-browed albatross soar on their two-meter wings to land for mating. They were closely watched by predatory southern mountain caracara, which all winter waiting for the eggs and chicks. Female male waiting on dry land, to keep watch the egg until it flies to the sea and come back with a full beak fish.
4. Christmas Island: every year millions of red crabs crawling over rocks and cliffs into the water.
5. Michoacan, Mexico: no monarch butterfly will not be able to complete the migration from Mexico to the north of Canada and back. Instead generations make this trip to the baton.
6. Starting your journey off the coast of Alaska, the Pacific walrus, whose body has not been created for the long voyage, using drifting ice floes for resting and mating during the migration to the coasts of Russia and back. But in recent years, the ice becomes smaller, and it is not enough at all walruses.
7. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming West. Earlier pronghorns were many, they were proud and free to migrate. Now this ancient migration supports a herd of 200 animals. Their migration from the mountains to the valleys and back has always been difficult, but now it has only worsened since on their way any fences, borders, rivers and other obstacles that lead to the extinction of this rare species.
8. Sahara desert: rare elephants of Mali make the longest migration on earth - 490 km around the heart of Mali in West Africa. The only way to survive here - move from one source of water and food to another.
9. Botswana, Africa: zebra migration in Botswana has been busy in the film to create a movie for «National Geographic». Many young mothers usually can not stand this long journey.
10. Mexico is one of the most feared predators of the deep sea - the great white shark - is also one of the largest migrant. It can travel thousands of kilometers in the open ocean, traveling each year from Hawaii to northern Mexico.
11. Azores, Portugal: sperm can travel over a distance of several hundreds of thousands of kilometers of ocean to ocean. Traveling alone most of my life, males each year sail to the Azores, joining the other, and then together they go to females, who are waiting for them.
12. Falkland Islands: red-adult penguins Rockhopper every day go to the sea and back to eat, and then climb the steep cliffs where they are hidden from the winds chicks. Three months later, the penguins jump into the sea again for the new season, and their chicks, trying to avoid the albatross, will test its wings, flying away from the land on which they can not return in the next 10 years
13. The mysterious whale shark - the largest fish in the sea. As though ironically it may be, its survival depends on small creatures. Whale sharks feed on plankton.
14. Upper Mississippi River Valley: white pelicans breed in North America and migrate south for the winter, will fly to Central America in flocks of about 150-180 individuals.
15. Pacific walruses travel according the movement of the ice. As the ice expands in the winter, they travel south. When he breaks down and leaves in spring and summer, they are returning to the north.
16. Jellyfish Lake, Palau five million jellyfish swim in the lake every day, following the east to the west in the morning and afternoon during the amazing migration. Nights jellyfish sink to a depth of 13 meters, absorbing nutrient-rich bacteria that are essential for the survival of their bodies
17. Michoacan, Mexico: thanks to new technologies, migration of monarch butterflies before us in amazing detail. allowing viewers to appreciate their beauty and grace.
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