Serengeti mystery as HUNDREDS of wildebeest found DEAD

4,628 views · Published 30 September 2015 · 2:06 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Real Thing TV · 2015 · News & Politics

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A vast carpet of the bloated antelope corpses floating on the famous Mara River in Tanzania left experienced safari guides heartbroken.

Tour guides came across the tear-jerking scene this week at the height of Africa’s incredible journey, when two million grass-eating wildebeest and zebra migrate to find fresh pastures.

The Serengeti odyssey is fraught with danger for the herbivores as they are tracked by predators and then have to cross the crocodile-infested Mara.

But in this latest tragedy, hundreds of wildebeest were somehow killed, creating a scene of Biblical devastation, with no known cause.

Africa Geographic, who first reported the carnage, said: “The images can only be described as tear-jerking. The pile of carcasses stretches into the distance and scavenger birds have already started circling the wildebeest.”

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