The Sudd wetlands of southern Sudan are home to more than 800,000 white-eared kob, best known for their annual migration.
These graceful antelopes of central Africa’s well-watered savannas
and floodplain grasslands are best known for their annual migration,
which produces one of the natural world’s great spectacles.
The
Sudd wetlands of southern Sudan, nourished by the White Nile, are home
to an astounding number of white-eared kob—more than 800,000 animals.
When joined by tiang antelopes and Mongalla gazelles they form enormous
migrating herds of more than 1.2 million individuals. Thickly packed
columns of these animals in motion can stretch a staggering 50 miles (80
kilometers) long and 30 miles (48 kilometers) across. Such herds rival
the Serengeti’s teeming masses of wildebeests for the title of the
world’s most massive—and awe-inspiring—mammal migration.
