Migration in mammals by noor zada khan

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1. Presentation Topic: Migration In Mammals Presented By: Naeed Ullah M.Sc 4 th

2. Migration:- Def: Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. ... It is found in all major  animalgroups , including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans.

3. Why Mammals Migrate: Reasons to Move. Some animals travel relatively short distances to find food or more favorable living or breeding conditions. Most animals that migrate do so to find food or more livable conditions. Some animals migrate to breed. The Atlantic Salmon begins its life in a river and migrates downstream to the ocean.

4. 10 amazing mammal migrations: Here are some of the world’s most amazing migrations, from the best-known wildebeest in the Serengeti to the not so famous bearded pig in South East Asia – in 1983 the number migrating through the rainforests of Borneo was estimated at one million.

5. 1 Wildebeest Serengeti: Around 1.3 million wildebeest, plus other antelopes and zebras, travel nearly 3,000km each year as they follow the rains around the Serengeti.

6. Wildebeest Serengeti

7. 2 Bearded pig South East Asia Little is known about these odd-looking pigs’ migrations – but thousands travel up to 600km, probably following seasonal fruit supplies.  

8. Bearded pig South East Asia

9. 3 Caribou Canada and Alaska   The 170,000 members of the Porcupine caribou herd travel 640km between their summer and winter ranges.

10. Caribou Canada and Alaska

11. 4 White-eared kob  South Sudan Every year, some 800,000 white-eared kob travel 1,500km through the Sudd wetlands of South Sudan. 

12. White-eared kob  South Sudan

13. 5 Burchell’s zebra Namibia and Botswana As the crow flies, these zebras travel 500km between Namibia and Botswana every year. The scale of the migration was only discovered in 2014.

14. Burchell’s zebra Namibia and Botswana

15. 6 Straw- coloured bat Zambia   At least 10 million bats arrive in Kasanka National Park from the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo every October. It’s possible they travel up to 2,000km.

16. Straw- coloured bat Zambia

17. 7 Asian elephant Sri Lanka  It’s not a migration, but the dry-season merge of up to 300 elephants in Minneriya National Park, Sri Lanka, is one of the largest elephant  gatherings in the world.

18. Asian elephant Sri Lanka

19. 8 Chiru antelope Tibetan Plateau Herds of up to 1,000 female Tibetan antelopes can be seen migrating up to 600km between winter ranges and summer calving grounds

20. Chiru antelope Tibetan Plateau

21. 9 Lemming Norway   Lemmings travel huge distances to find new territory. Many drown, but by accident, not mass suicide.

22. Lemming Norway

23. 10 Saiga antelope Kazakhstan The saiga travels 1,000km across the arid steppe of Kazakhstan to reach the best summer grazing.

24. Saiga antelope Kazakhstan

25. Reference: www.nhptv.org>naturalworks

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