Dr. Jack Wheeler
December 8, 2025

[This Monday’s Archive was first published in TTP on December 29, 2020. We have now operated five of these extraordinary life-memorable experiences. I am 82 now, and although I remain in good health, the sixth early next year must be my last. If you have always dreamed of making a luxury safari in the Serengeti of Africa a part of your life, and would like to make that dream come true with me as so many TTPers have, now is your chance. Especially since my wife Rebel, as the business manager of Wheeler Expeditions, is ready to make special savings for you – see below. Enjoy the photos!]
TTP, December 29, 2020
The Serengeti Migration is world famous, when the great herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelles are strung out mile after mile migrating from Tanzania’s Serengeti to the Masai Mara of Kenya from May through July. The migration is circular, for starting in October, the herds return.
But return to where? And from where do the great herds start the cycle anew? The answer is the Short Grass Plains of the Serengeti’s far south. It is here where, from January through March, over a million wildebeest congregate en masse as you see in the photo above, not strung out over a hundred miles. For this is their Birthing Season when the herds are replenished with new life.
A Serengeti Birthing Season Safari is unimaginably spectacular. Over 8,000 wildebeest calves are born every day, along with thousands of baby zebras and gazelles. Nearby adults gather around the newborn to protect them from hordes of lions, leopards, and cheetahs on the hunt.
This is by far Africa’s, indeed the world’s, greatest wildlife extravaganza – yet it remains unknown to all but the most experienced African cognoscenti.
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