Wiping out the world's mass migrations

Monday, June 1, 2009 - 09:56 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Densely packed wildebeests flowing over the Serengeti, bison teeming across the Northern Plains -these iconic images extend from Hollywood epics to the popular imagination. But the fact is, all of the world's large-scale terrestrial migrations have been severely reduced and a quarter of the migrating species are suspected to no longer migrate at all because of human changes to the landscape. A recently published research paper highlights this global change and presents the first analysis of the dwindling mass migrations.

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