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 ...

Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop ...

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Migration is one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena. Every year, countless species of animals set out on incredible ...

These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about ...

The arctic tern may look small and delicate, but these magnificent sea birds migrate further than any other animal on the planet. In a 30-year lifetime, a single tern can fly the same distance as ...

People have always been interested in where wild animals go, especially when they were a primary food source. Now one of the questions is: why are North American grassland bird populations shrinking?

Aa Aa Aa Many animals migrate, and the distance they cover ranges from a few centimeters to thousands of kilometers; some may even cross the entire globe (Dingle 1996). Tracking migrating ...

Tying migration to particular genes in caribou could have conservation implications, Musiani says. “With the expansion of human populations and with the increase in human infrastructure, these animals ...

(Arterra Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo) Migration can happen around the world at any time. But it's most common for animals to migrate when the seasons and weather conditions change.