AI Satellite Study Reveals Wildebeest Migration Half Previous Estimates

Breakthrough AI Analysis in PNAS Nexus A new study published in PNAS Nexus has upended decades of wildlife population data by showing that fewer than 600,000 wildebeest migrate annually across the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem—approximately half of the long-accepted estimate of 1.3 million animals. Led by Dr. Isla Duporge (Princeton University) and Professor David Macdonald (Oxford University), researchers deployed two deep-learning models—U-Net and YOLOv8—to analyze over 4,000 square […]