On the path of Latin America's greatest wildlife migration On the path of Latin America's greatest wildlife migration The epic migration of a 6-foot long, 200-pound catfish The epic migration of a ...
Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop ...
The arctic tern may look small and delicate, but these magnificent sea birds migrate further than any other animal on the planet. In a 30-year lifetime, a single tern can fly the same distance as ...
This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...
Animal migration is the long-distance relocation of individual animals. It usually involves a substantial number of individuals and is often in response to a seasonal or life-history cue.
These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about ...