AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Every year, the plains of East Africa provide the stage for one of the natural world’s most impressive spectacles. Great herds of wildebeest, zebra, and other antelope gather in hundreds of thousands, to travel together across Tanzania and Kenya in search of good grazing, safe places to breed, and give birth.

Detailed explanation-2: -The wildebeest and the zebra are best buddies in the wildlife. Every year there are over 1.5 million wildebeests and 2, 00, 000 zebras participates in the great migration. As the wildebeest have swarm intelligence, they can avoid the dangers on their way like when crossing the river or in open land.

Detailed explanation-3: -They serve as a kind of protection from predators! When zebras are grouped together, their combined stripes make it hard for a lion or leopard to pick out one zebra to chase. Zebra stripes are unique to each individual, and researchers in the wilderness have used zebras’ individual stripe patterns for identification.

Detailed explanation-4: -zebra, any of three species of strikingly black-and-white striped mammals of the horse family Equidae (genus Equus): the plains zebra (E. quagga), which is found in rich grasslands over much of eastern and southern Africa; Grevy’s zebra (E.