The document summarizes the migration patterns of several different animal species. It describes where they migrate between (such as between Tanzania and Kenya for wildebeests), why they migrate (for food, breeding, escaping weather), how far they travel (up to 2.4 million km for Arctic terns), and other key details about their migratory behaviors and habitats. Animal species discussed include wildebeests, locusts, blue whales, monarch butterflies, salmon, Arctic terns, Adelie penguins, Siberian cranes.

1. ANIMAL MIGRATION
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2. WILDEBEEST
Distance covered: Around 1,600 kilometres each year.
MIGRATE FOR:
Food, surface water availability, and phosphorus content in grasses.
WHERE DO THEY MIGRATE:
They migrate between the Serengeti in Tanzania and the Maasai Mara reserve in
Kenya.
• Between January and July, the wildebeests graze in the grasslands of the Serengeti.
• In late July, the animals begin crossing to Kenya where they feed until late November
when they start their journey back to the Serengeti.
Migrating can be very dangerous with lots of predators, that’s why the young travel on
the inside of the herd, to help protect them.
Not all wildebeest are migratory.
Native to
AFRICA
They follow the cycles of rainfall as a guide.

3. LOCUSTS
• These Winged insects with strong flight migrate
long distances.
• They are really harmful for plants and destroy
them.
• Locust swarms devastate crops and cause major
agricultural damage, which can further lead to
famine and starvation.
• They fly with the wind at a speed of about 15 to
20 kilometres per hour.
• Swarms can travel 5 to 130 km or more in a day.
• An adult locust can consume plants to its own
weight in fresh food per day.
• Locusts eat leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, bark
and growing points, and also destroy plants by
their weight as they descend on them in massive
numbers.
• They migrate throughout Africa, Asia, Australia
and New Zealand.

4. BLUE WHALE
Major Diet: KRILL
MIGRATE FOR:
For feed and also migrate in search of breeding waters..
WHERE DO THEY MIGRATE:
During winter, the whales migrate to the equator to escape the extreme
weather conditions in the poles.
They migrate back to the poles during summer.
The migration path of the blue whale remains a mystery to researchers
because of the unclear pattern.
LARGEST living
animal
Although there are about 10,000-25,000 left in the oceans.
The blue whales inhabit all of the deep oceans except for the Arctic.

5. MONARCH BUTTERFLY
•Monarch Butterfly arrives Canada in June, then
in September (two to three generations later)
head south to Mexico.
•Monarch butterflies are the only insect that
migrates to a warmer climate that is 2,500
miles/4000 Kms away each year.
•No individual Monarch butterfly completes the
whole migration.
•Instead they mate and reproduce on the
journey, and successive generations travel the
next stage of the migration.
•Other common names depending on region
include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer,
and black veined brown.

6. Distance covered: 3,000 kilometres
WHERE DO THEY MIGRATE:
• They migrate between saltwater and freshwater to lay eggs.
• After hatching the spawn spend some time in fresh water (from
three months to a year).
• Then they migrate back to the Ocean.
MIGRATE FOR:
Laying eggs and giving birth to young ones
Native to NORTH
ATLANTIC and
PACIFIC OCEAN
Tracking studies have shown that the fish return to the exact spot
where they hatched to spawn.
Salmon

7. •It has longest migration of any animal around
71,000 kilometers a year / 2.4 million kilometers.
This adds up to 2.4 million kilometres over 30
year lifespan.
•It flies from Greenland and the Arctic to
Antarctica; from one end of the world to the
other.
•Arctic Terns are social birds, foraging in groups
and nesting on the ground near water in areas
with rocky or sandy ground in colonies.
•Arctic Terns can live for decades, and breed
until they are 3 or 4 years old.
•When molting its wing feathers during the
winter, the Arctic Tern rarely flies.
•They take small fish from the surface of the
water or plunge-dive just below the surface.
ARCTIC TERN

8. Adelie penguins
Distance covered: Around 13,000 kilometres
MIGRATE FOR:
Adélie penguins majorly migrate for at breeding.
LONGEST
MIGRATION of
all PENGUINS.
WHERE DO THEY MIGRATE:
• Adélie penguins live in Ross Sea region in Antarctica and migrate each
year in late October or November.
• They follow the sun for their breeding colonies.
• December, the warmest month in Antarctica (about −2 °C or 28 °F), the parents
take turns incubating the egg; one goes to feed and the other stays to warm the
egg.
• Their nests consist of stones piled together.
It is named after Adélie Land, in turn named for Adèle Dumont d'Urville, wife
of French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, who first discovered this penguin in
1840.

9. •They are native to Siberia and are also known as
the Siberian white crane or the snow crane.
•Among the cranes, they make the longest distance
migrations.
•They occur in three groups: Eastern group, which
migrates from eastern Siberia to China, Central group,
which migrates from western Siberia to India, and
Western group, which migrate from western Russia to
Iran.
•Female crane is a bit smaller in size and has a little
shorter beak as compared to Male cranes.
•Siberian cranes are omnivores, with exceptions of
breeding season, these creatures depend mostly on a
vegetarian diet.
SIBERIAN CRANE

10. THANK YOU
Presented By:
SUCHI BANSAL
Fun With Science
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