Why is Africa the Mara river annually kills thousands of animals

Wild Africa — this is not a very pleasant place, not only for guests but also for locals. There are on the continent and particularly dangerous places, such as the Mara river flowing through Kenya and Tanzania. Every year the Great migration makes to cross this waterway that millions of Zebra and wildebeest. And every year thousands of these animals, their bones littered the bed and banks of a sinister river.

Not less than 10 thousand years herbivores of the savanna cross great distances after life-giving rains. More than two million zebras and antelopes from one year to migrate from scorched by the heat areas to the green pastures and cool. The Mara river originating in the mountains of Kenya, reaching the plains, becoming a serious barrier to herbivores.

Mara is not too wide, but has muddy banks and a considerable depth, and its waters are inhabited by numerous crocodiles. Reptiles look forward to the period of migration for them is a celebration of death and saturation. However, as for hundreds of land predators — lions, hyenas and leopards, which is a huge concentration of migratory animals provides easy prey.

The number of migrating animals is incredibly

In August Armada animal reaches the coast of Mara — wildebeests and zebras are a continuous stream that is not interrupted for a minute either by day or by night and moves a few days. Avangard live stream can stay on the shore to rest or to find a safe Ford rear ranks, afflicted with hunger, thirst and predators, constantly pushing at them, forcing them to enter the water.

Even having the opportunity to stay at the Mara, the animals would never do that — they have nowhere to retreat. Behind the two-million army of ungulates was left bare, compacted as ground soil, which is unable to feed them. Hardly the first zebras and antelopes get in the water of the river, begins a bloody feast, which lasts a few days.

For crocodiles of the Mara is no more fertile time of the year than August

Crush occurs not only in water, but on the other side

Animals are slipping and falling head over heels from the banks into the water, press against each other and are down. For crocodiles, no more easy pickings — the probability to get the intended victim reptiles in the water is over 90%. Migratory ungulates suffocate in the mess of carcasses, broken ribs and limbs, drowning and their bodies carry out quick for Mary.

The trick does not always end well for GNU

The place across the Mara turns into a hellish cauldron of the great migration, where does not matter neither age nor force nor the experience of the animal, but only a chance. In the water, victims of resettlement feasting crocodiles, and on the banks — wild animals. Surviving in this meat grinder will come back here again and again, as it was a year and ten thousand years ago. Therefore, the shores of the Mara is always littered with bones of those who lost the lottery of natural selection.

Don't miss his birds-scavengers, for weeks moved to the shores of the treacherous river

Large and small tragedies playing out in Africa every second and sometimes the protagonist of these fatal ideas is defenseless and caught off guard "the crown of nature" — man.