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ASIA

7 EUROPE

EUROPEAN TOAD
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ALPINE IBEX As adults, European toads spend
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Strong jumpers and surefooted most of their time on land. But
climbers, these agile mountain every year, when they emerge
goats live at high altitudes in from their winter hibernation,
summer but move to lower areas they follow the same route back
during the cold winter months to the ponds where they hatched
when food is scarce.
in order to breed.

8 COMMON SWIFT
These superb fliers spend the
winter in Africa, feeding on
insects that they catch on the
wing. In April they fly north to
Europe to breed during the
summer, before returning to
Africa in the fall.
AFRICA

BLUE WILDEBEEST
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9 In the biggest mammal migration
on Earth some 1.5 million
wildebeest, a type of antelope,
follow a triangular route across
the African savanna in search
of water and fresh grazing. On
the way, many wildebeest fall AUSTRALIA
prey to cheetahs, hyenas,
crocodiles, and other predators. 11

BOGONG MOTH
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ARCTIC TERN Common in southern Australia,
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This seabird migrates bogong moths escape the intense
6 an incredible 25,000 miles summer heat by flying by the
(40,000km) each year. millions to the Australian Alps.
Arctic terns breed in the Arctic Here they roost in crevices
during the long summer days. and caves. In the cooler fall,
As fall approaches, they make they migrate to inland pastures
the epic journey to the Antarctic, to lay their eggs.
where the southern summer is
just beginning.

ANTARCTIC

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