No one is saddling up these zebras for their long trip. They are taking it all on their own.

About 2,000 of the horse-like mammals took a long walk. It is called a migration. This group traveled across southern Africa. They moved from Namibia to Botswana.

We’ve known for many years that mammals in Africa migrate. The biggest group journey happens in the Serengeti. That is a wide, open plain in East Africa. Millions of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles take a circular path around the Serengeti every year. They move to find more grass to eat.

But this zebra migration is a new discovery for scientists. Wildlife experts put electronic collars on some of the zebras. The collars send a signal.

Equipment tells the scientists where the signal is coming from. That’s how they found out that these zebras migrate too. And they go a long, long way!

The southern African zebras travel a total of 300 miles. Their trip is the longest land migration on the whole continent.

Why do they go? It seems they go to look for water. But how do they know where to go? That’s a question scientists hope to answer. Did the mother zebras teach their young the way? Or is it a God-given instinct?