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  2. Animal migration - Wikipedia

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    Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology. It is found in all major animal groups, including birds , mammals , fish , reptiles , amphibians, insects , and crustaceans .

  3. Indo-Aryan migrations - Wikipedia

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    The migration into northern India was not a large-scale immigration, but may have consisted of small groups [20] [note 2] which were genetically diverse. [ clarification needed ] Their culture and language spread by the same mechanisms of acculturalisation, and the absorption of other groups into their patron-client system.

  4. Migration (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology. [ 5 ] It is found in all major animal groups, including birds , [ 6 ] mammals , [ 7 ] fish , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] reptiles , [ 10 ] amphibians, insects , [ 11 ] and crustaceans .

  5. Bird migration - Wikipedia

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    Migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south, undertaken by many species of birds. Migration is marked by its annual seasonality and movement between breeding and non-breeding areas. [16] Nonmigratory bird movements include those made in response to environmental changes including in food availability, habitat, or weather.

  6. Christmas Island red crab - Wikipedia

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    For most of the year, red crabs can be found within Christmas Islands' forests. Each year they migrate to the coast to breed; the beginning of the wet season (usually October/November) allows the crabs to increase their activity and stimulates their annual migration. [3] The timing of their migration is also linked to the phases of the moon. [5]

  7. Bar-headed goose - Wikipedia

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    The grey goose genus Anser has no other member indigenous to the Indian region, nor any at all to the Ethiopian, Australian, or Neotropical regions.Ludwig Reichenbach placed the bar-headed goose in the monotypic genus Eulabeia in 1852, [2] though John Boyd's taxonomy treats both Eulabeia and the genus Chen as subgenera of Anser.

  8. Pastoralism - Wikipedia

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    A catt of the Bakhtiari people, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran Global map of pastoralism, its origins and historical development [1]. Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds. [2]

  9. Transhumance - Wikipedia

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    Transhumance in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. . In montane regions (vertical transhumance), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in wint