Stunning Footage: Epic Animal Migrations in Yellowstone | National Geographic

[Music] The greater Yellowstone ecosystem has some of the most incredible Wildlife migrations in the [Music] world. We have the nine major elk migrations radiating out of the national parks and Wilderness areas every year. The famous 120-mile Pronghorn migration from the upper Green River Basin into Grand Teton National Park, and the newly discovered 150-mile red desert to Hoback Muer migration. Yellowstone is this incredible icon for protected areas globally because it was the first national Park.

Migrations connect working lands to Forest lands to park lands. Political boundaries mean nothing to Nature; it's a permeable boundary, and they just move back and forth as their biology [Music] dictates. I think these migrations might be the greatest wonder of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem that people haven't seen until now. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Within 2 and 1/2 seconds, she was on me. I swung at her with a shovel and hit her, but it didn't dissuade her any. She reached up and basically removed the center of my face.