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Evolution Earth

A Growing Number of Wildebeest In the Serengeti

Season 1 Episode 5 | 3m 16s

After vets eradicated rinderpest, a disease which impacts both cattle and the wildebeest of the Serengeti. Wildebeest numbers grew and grew from 300,00 to over a million. At the time experts were worried they would overgraze destroying the ecosystem but instead the opposite happened, a key relationship was restored and the whole environment started to flourish.

Extras
Watch • 5:45
Evolution Earth
A Herd of Buffalo Are Returned to the Fort Peck Reservation
A momentous occasion as a new Buffalo herd are returned to the Fort Peck Reservation.
Clip: S1 E5 | 5:45
Watch • 3:07
Evolution Earth
Scientists Look to Soil for Answers on Climate Change
Plants are reacting to our changing climate so scientists are looking to soil for answers.
Clip: S1 E5 | 3:07
Watch • 55:05
Evolution Earth
Grasslands
Forgotten and overlooked, grasslands could hold the key to our planet’s survival.
Episode: S1 E5 | 55:05
Watch • 55:25
Evolution Earth
Ice
At the planet’s frozen extremes, animals can reveal the changes taking place.
Episode: S1 E4 | 55:25