Camera-wielding visitors crowd animals on risky great migration

The great migration, a thousand kilometre-long search for grazing lands across the Serengeti, is underway and attracting hordes of tourists.

- Jarryd Westerdale

Captured on countless documentaries, the cinematic battle between wildebeest and crocodile now has a third player.

Among the great moments of the migration are the river crossings made by wildebeest and zebra through crocodile-infested waters.

Tourists were filmed this week lining the riverbank, obstructing desperate animals from successfully escaping the jaws of the deadly predators.