Behaviour
The Serengeti herds are purely migratory and abandon the usual plains after the rainy season has ended to seek higher grasses in wetter areas. Grasslands bordering alkaline lakes or pans are particularly choice dry-season (winter) habitats. Herds may be mixed gender with a dominant male, female only, or bachelor only. Blue wildebeest often graze together with other species such as plains zebras, for purposes of mutual protection. Zebras in particular are beneficial, since they mow down highly vegetated areas, leaving the wildebeests to eat the newly exposed and more nutritious short grasses, which they prefer. A blue wildebeest can attain maximum a speed of 65 to 80 kilometres per hour (40 to 50 mph).
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