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the planet's oldest commute, run entirely on hunger, instinct, and zero GPS
means The seasonal or long-term movement of people, animals, or things from one place to another, usually in search of better conditions.
from From Latin 'migrare,' to move from one place to another, which gave us 'migratio' — a relocation. It's a cousin of 'mutare,' to change, sharing the deep Indo-European sense of shifting position. English borrowed it in the 1600s, first for the wholesale movements of peoples, and the birds and butterflies joined the word's territory soon after.
- distance king
- Arctic terns fly pole to pole yearly
- inner compass
- birds sense Earth's magnetic field to navigate
- multigenerational
- some monarchs never finish the trip themselves
- fuel up
- birds nearly double their body weight beforehand
- ancient roots
- animals migrated long before humans drew borders
monarch butterfly migration — 3 billion monarchs travel 3,000 miles from canada to mexico each fall
great wildebeest migration — 2 million wildebeest cross the serengeti-mara ecosystem annually in tanzania and kenya
syrian refugee crisis — 6.8 million syrians displaced internally since 2011, largest displacement in recent history
indian labor migration — 100+ million indian workers migrate internally for seasonal agricultural and construction work yearly