This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED: Sick or injured, it’s wandering miles from its herd on the Serengeti Plain of ...

It is wildebeest calving season ... Nevertheless, Emmanuel Gheerbrant, a researcher for the National Center for Scientific Research in France, speculates that Africa "must have been a laboratory ...

The sheer numbers might imply all is well, but wildebeest faces ever-increasing threats, from competition with humans and livestock for space and water to tourism, poaching fences and the obstruction ...