Photo Courtesy of J. Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIf you have ever watched the Discovery Channel or one of those fancy Earth movies then you may be familiar with one of the most amazing sights of the world.\u00a0 Of course, I am talking about the Wildebeest migration.\u00a0 Typically around May or June these animals will migrate north in search of greener pastures.\u00a0 I guess in this particular case the grass actually is greener on the other side.\u00a0 Incredibly, as many as 1.5 million Wildebeest’s will come together for the trek north.\u00a0 Could you imagine watching that many wild beasts all moving together.\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, observing the Wildebeest migration has just made it onto my bucket list.\u00a0 Anyone want to join me?<\/p>\n
Wildebeest Fast Fact – <\/strong>Within minutes of being born, the Wildebeest calf is able to walk.\u00a0 In a few days they will actually be able to keep up with the rest of the herd.\u00a0 I am guessing they need to learn how walk quickly in order to at least try and defend themselves against the predators of Africa.<\/p>\nI hope you all enjoyed our Wildebeest Wild Fact today.\u00a0 See all of you tomorrow for the last fact of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before you read today’s post, I want you to go over to your closet and pull out your old safari hat.\u00a0 What do you mean you don’t have a safari hat?\u00a0 I guess you can just use a baseball cap if you need to.\u00a0 Anyway, we are heading to the plains of Africa today (which is why I wanted to make sure you had your hat) to see if we can catch up with the Wildebeest.\u00a0 If you were wondering this name came about as “Wild Beast” due to their big head, shaggy mane and curved horns which do sort <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,615,1608,4025,1609,1606,1607],"yoast_head":"\n
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