Animals that migrate the farthest
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Q 01Which whale, famous for the songs males sing, migrates thousands of miles from cold feeding grounds to warm breeding waters?
- ANarwhal
- BHumpback Whale
- COrca
- DSperm Whale
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Humpback Whale
Humpback whales undertake extensive migrations, moving from their rich feeding grounds in polar waters to tropical or subtropical breeding grounds, covering thousands of miles annually.
Q 02Which ungulate makes the famous annual mass migration across the Serengeti and Maasai Mara?
- ASpringbok
- BWildebeest
- CKudu
- DNyala
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Wildebeest
Wildebeest. Well over a million of them circle the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem each year in search of fresh grazing.
Q 03Which butterfly flies up to 3,000 miles from Canada to spend winter in central Mexico's mountain forests?
- APainted Lady Butterfly
- BCloudless Sulphur Butterfly
- CRed Admiral Butterfly
- DMonarch Butterfly
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Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly. The generation that flies south lives for months instead of weeks, and successive generations make the trip back north.
Q 04Which baleen whale makes a round trip of up to 12,000 miles between Arctic feeding areas and warm breeding lagoons?
- AFin Whale
- BGrey Whale
- CMinke Whale
- DBowhead Whale
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Grey Whale
Grey whales undertake one of the longest migrations of any mammal, traveling up to 12,000 miles (20,000 km) round trip between their Arctic feeding grounds and warmer breeding lagoons.
Q 05What seabird makes an epic figure-eight migration of tens of thousands of kilometres across the Pacific each year?
- ANorthern Fulmar
- BLaysan Albatross
- CSooty Shearwater
- DStorm Petrel
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Sooty Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater. Tracked New Zealand birds flew 64,000 km or more in a year, looping north up the western Pacific and back down the eastern side.
Q 06Which reptile makes transoceanic migrations of thousands of miles between nesting beaches and feeding grounds?
- AGreen Sea Turtle
- BLoggerhead Sea Turtle
- CLeatherback Sea Turtle
- DHawksbill Sea Turtle
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Leatherback Sea Turtle
Pacific leatherbacks cross about 6,000 miles of ocean from nesting sites in Indonesia to feed on California jellyfish — one tracked animal logged a 20,000 km foraging trip over 647 days — and they will hunt in water barely above freezing.
Q 07Which critically endangered crane species has eastern populations that winter primarily in China?
- ARed-crowned Crane
- BWhooping Crane
- CSandhill Crane
- DSiberian Crane
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Siberian Crane
The Siberian crane is the most threatened of the world's 15 crane species. Its eastern population breeds in Yakutia and winters almost entirely in China — about 93% of them in the Poyang Lake basin.
Q 08Which dragonfly makes the longest insect migration on Earth, up to 11,000 miles across oceans?
- AGlobe Skimmer
- BVagrant Emperor
- CBlue-tailed Damselfly
- DCommon Green Darner
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Globe Skimmer
The Globe Skimmer dragonfly (Pantala flavescens) is credited with the longest insect migration known, an estimated 11,000 miles (18,000 km) round trip across the Indian Ocean between India and Africa, over multiple generations.
Q 09Which pinniped migrates between North Pacific island breeding colonies and distant oceanic feeding grounds?
- ANorthern Fur Seal
- BHarp Seal
- CGray Seal
- DWalrus
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Northern Fur Seal
About half of the world's 1.1 million northern fur seals breed on the Pribilof Islands in the eastern Bering Sea, then move south for the winter — Alaskan animals ranging down the Pacific as far as Baja California.
Q 10Which mammal makes Africa's longest recorded land migration, a 500 km trek between Namibia and Botswana?
- AZebra
- BElephant
- CGemsbok
- DAfrican Wild Dog
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Zebra
Plains zebras have been tracked covering 500 km (310 mi) between Namibia and Botswana in search of water and grazing, the longest land migration recorded for any African mammal.
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