One wildebeast is amusing: a shaggy, skinny cow with a head seemingly too narrow for a brain. But 1.3 million wildebeest are unimaginably impressive. In a breathtaking spectacle, particularly from above, vast herds of gnu sweep across the East African savannah in an annual circuit, accompanied by hundreds of thousands of zebras, gazelles and elands – and the predators that feed on the rumbling masses. The wildebeest spend the December to May rainy season in the southern Serengeti, nosing northwest before crossing into Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve. Most dramatic is the mass crossing of the Grumeti River, usually between May and July, where crocodiles wait to snap up unlucky wildebeest.

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