Nothing shows the determination, resilience, and survival instincts of its creatures more than one of nature’s most awe-inspiring events – animal migrations. Thrilling tales of bellowing herds ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

But he will quickly turn his focus to terrestrial wildlife migrations. Middleton, an ecologist and research scientist with Yale University and the University of Wyoming, studies animal pathways.

For centuries, the disappearance of birds during winter was a great mystery to Europeans. Some thought they hibernated underwater, or that they transformed into other species, or even went to moon.

These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon ... will swim 10,000 miles across the Pacific between the US and Indonesia. The globe skimmer dragonfly has that name for a reason.

The potential value of radar for studying animal migration was first discovered during ... NEXRAD is a network of 159 radars covering the US and southern Canada, and it is operated by the US ...

Using funds from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (MPIO) in Radolfzell develops a new system for the global tracking of animal ...