It is believed that the springbok migrations of the 1800s were triggered not by annual seasons but rather by the transition of multi-year wet weather cycles into multi-year dry weather cycles. The migrating springbok, known back then as trekbokke, would start their exodus by gathering in vast numbers in the Kalahari where they had managed to multiply exponentially on the back of a multi-year wet cycle. Now, however, as drought returned to the re…
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