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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 08:34 PM
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Mass wildlife migration in Sudan (BBC)
Conservationists say they have discovered one of the largest migrations of land mammals on Earth in southern Sudan.

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said it found 1.3m migratory animals, despite fears of damage to numbers after a civil war in the region.

The US-based group also found an 80km-long (50 miles) and 50km-wide (31 miles) column of migrating antelopes.

"I have never seen wildlife in such numbers," said the WCS's Michael Fay.

"This could represent the biggest migration of large mammals on Earth," bigger even than the mass migrations of the Serengeti, he said.



Mammals? :crazy:
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6749415.stm
pix: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/africa_wildlife_survives_in_southern_sudan/html/1.stm

Lots of good news, but some species have declined sharply.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 08:39 PM
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1. Wait, _WHY_ are they migrating, again?
  I read the story but I didn't pick up on what scientists were speculating was the cause. Multi-species mass migration is a harbiner of some really creepy shit.

Anyone?

PB
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 08:49 PM
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3. Change of seasons. It's just part of the climate in that part of the world.
Winter and summer equate to wet and dry, as much as or more than cold and hot, in some parts of the world.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 08:43 PM
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2. It might be that the people who be hunting the animals are all being killed or forced to leave the
country...so the population is going up. Perhaps the elephants and buffalo are still targets of poachers for mercenary reasons, so their numbers are dwindling since there are no governmental controls on poaching.
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