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About 10,000 wildebeest trying to cross Kenya’s Mara River drowned during what could have been a routine migration. Apparently, they were acting as if they’re lemmings. And that’s bizarre!

As the animals passed through southern Kenya during their annual migration, part of the herd attempted to cross the fast-moving Mara at a “particularly treacherous” point, according to Terilyn Lemaire, a conservation worker with the Nairobi-based Mara Conservancy who witnessed the incident.”Once they jumped into the water, they were unable to climb up either embankment onto land and, as a result, got swept up by the current and drowned,” she wrote in an email to National Geographic News. Even as the first animals into the river struggled and failed to cross, thousands of others continued to stampede into the water behind them, Lemaire said.

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