300 wildebeests drown as Mara migration gets rough

Wildebeests crossing the Mara River [Photo: Courtesy]

More than 300 wildebeests drowned at the weekend following a stampede as the animals were crossing the Mara River in the Mara Game reserve, reports indicate. Although this is part of the wildebeest migration thrill, the Sunday incident was unique as it witnessed one of the largest single wildebeest deaths in recent history.

Tourists watched in awe as hundreds of the animals died in the crocodile-infected waters of the Mara. But according to Maasai Mara chief warden James Sindiyo, stampede and drowning is part of the migration phenomenon. In the Great Wildebeest Migration, millions of wildebeests dot East Africa’s renowned plains in one of the most thrilling spectacles