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The plains are full of wild and beautiful animals...

Seen at dawn from a hot air balloon, these zebras are heading north on their annual migration with the wildebeeste.

The grass is a yard high at the start of the migration. As the herds move across the savannah the zebras eat the oats from the top of grasses and the wildebeeste eat the stems; these two species live side by side and eat the same grass but they are not competing for the same food. Later, Thompson's Gazelles and other small antelope eat the shorter stalks of grass left by the wildebeeste.

As many as two million wildebeeste and other antelopes move north in the late summer, and south in the spring. After the migration, the tall grasses are gone and the savannah looks like a lawn.

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