6 Seriously Impressive Animal Migrations

There are some seriously impressive journeys that animals will undertake to avoid the cold, to give birth, or to find food. All kinds of creatures migrate that you might not think about; some big and familiar, and others so small, you can barely see them.

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[losman]

My migration to the refrigerator is also truly impressive.

[peter]

bar-headed geese: "Why do these mountains keep getting higher"

[dolajakevan]

“And what sound does an Arctic Tern make?”
“BACKSTREET BOYS”

[illiengalene]

Animals I wanted in there: hummingbird, monarch butterfly, whales, cranes, crabs and everything in the tide zones

[Xatrac]

When talking about Emperor penguins, one of the photos its actually of KING penguins. you can see the brown juveniles. probably the pic was taken at South Georgia.

[fegjnwrs]

"they also have more small blood vessels around their cells"... Blood vessels around their cells... Are there cells in the blood vessels around their cells that are in blood vessels?

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

What do they eat when they migrate? Do they just eat whatever they come across?

[patrickmccurry]

"Tern around. Every now and then I get a little bit higher. When I dream of something wild. Tern around." - Mt. Everest

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Jellyfish Lake is on the island of Eil Malk but the nation is Palau

[larryscott]

I was expecting the migration of Monarch butterflies. They take 4 generations to migrate.

[RosheenQuynh]

Awww... I was hoping to hear why Reindeer are also called Caribou :( Because I looked it up and apparently they're of the same genus but two different species.

[nyrragraellos]

I watch this everyday and every night ❤️

[Christopher-N]

(4:06) 4, Bar-Headed Geese: I've heard the same thing about cranes, probably in a Sir David Attenborough show. Sudden storms can really make things difficult.
What, nothing about the distance humpback whales migrate while trying to avoid orcas... or the monarch butterfly, how they manage to find their migratory mountains in Mexico?

[OMGitshimitis]

The bar headed geese migrating that high is sort of a myth particularly the idea that they do it regularly. Studies have shown that in general they uses mountain passes where available (Wikipedia sourced). They have still been found flying that high, with an enverified report of them topping Mount Everest, but that isn't a routine part of their migration. The coolest thing I found about their migration is that they have the highest rate of climb of any migrating bird and that they climb when the tail wind is lowest and therefore do so with the least assistance from the wind!

[uprightape]

What about the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds that cross the Gulf Of Mexico from Yucatan to the US? 500 miles of open water for a 6-gram bird?

[ReaperJF]

At 4:30 I guess it meant to say the bar-headed geese fly over 7200m above sea level? Flying an additional 7000m above ground over the heights of Himalaya would put them into the lower stratosphere.

[Shaden]

My favorite 5 animal migrations: Arctic Tern, Monarch Butterfly, Serengeti Wildebeast, Bar-Headed Goose, and Humpback Whale. And the most impressive human migration is the seasonal migration from the US North East to Florida in the autumn and back again in the spring.

[SlowToe]

Please do a follow up video with more migration stories

[damienvarley]

The most perplexing to me is the migration of eels from the UK to the Sargasso Sea. I researched it for my degree and calculated that since the eels don't feed in the salt water they shouldn't be able to store enough energy in their bodies to make the journey

[NoddtheOdd]

Somehow I am not surprised that terns take so many turns when migrating.