Animals That Migrate the Farthest
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Q 01Which large marine mammal migrates thousands of miles from cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters?
- ABlue Whale
- 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
- DGazelle
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Wildebeest
The Great Migration is the largest of three long-distance blue wildebeest movements in Africa, and the Serengeti population alone stands at roughly 1,300,000 animals moving in search of grazing and water.
Q 03Which insect migrates across North America over several generations, individuals flying up to 3,000 miles?
- APainted Lady Butterfly
- BCloudless Sulphur Butterfly
- CRed Admiral Butterfly
- DMonarch Butterfly
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Monarch Butterfly
Monarchs cover between 1,200 and 2,800 miles or more from the northeastern US and southeastern Canada to the mountain forests of central Mexico, and no single butterfly makes the whole journey — it takes successive generations.
Q 04Which large baleen whale completes an annual round trip of up to 12,000 miles, traveling from Arctic feeding areas to warmer 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 shearwaters run a circular figure-of-eight up one side of the Pacific and back down the other. Birds breeding in New Zealand may cover 74,000 km in a year — over 500 km a day — reaching Japan, Alaska and California.
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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