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By Derek Poinsette

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines migration as “the process of animals traveling to a different place, usually when the season changes.” 

Biologists use the term specifically for large-scale movements of populations of animals over relatively long distances and between different habitats. For example, a bear moving up onto the mountainside to snooze during the day, and then back down to…