Wildebeest live in large herds and are good grazers. Large concentrations quickly exhaust a pasture and so wildebeest aggregations have to keep moving, a phenomenon which is very pronounced in the Serengeti.

In the Serengeti, the migration is a continuous quest for greener pastures and water, taking the wildebeest over an annual circuit of 800 kms. They have excellent sense of sight and hearing. Wildebeest have many predators, including lions, cheetahs, hunting dogs and hyenas.