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Seals crowd onto rocks May 29 2008
Earth-Touch filmed thousands of Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) packed into the rocky outcrop that is the Cape Cross seal reserve in Namibia.
The Earth-Touch baby album Apr 30 2008
Over the months, Earth-Touch has been privileged to witness the early days, survival struggles and playful moments of many young animals. Here is a selection of these video clips.
Tags: africa, baboon, baby, bath, bird, botswana, burrow, calf, cape, chick, coast, colony, cub, delta, den, dog, egg, elephant, endangered, fish, fly, foal, giraffe, herd, hluhluwe, imfolozi, juvenile, karoo, kite, kwazulu-natal, lion, mammal, meerkat, monkey, moremi, mud, okavango, piglet, reef, sodwana, south africa, thailand, tree, trunk, video, warthog, water, western cape, whale, young, zebraDid you know? Wasps Apr 10 2008
Wasps are vital to ecosystems. Most are either parasitic or predatory and play a role in limiting the population growth of thousands of other insect species.
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Pretenders to the bee throne Jan 29 2008
The Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) is the only bee species whose workers can produce females from unfertilised eggs. This allows them to compete with the colony’s queen in producing the next queen. A queen bee develops from an ordinary larva if it gets special food.
University of Sydney researcher Lyndon Jordan carried out a genetic study of South African bees showing that 23 out of 39 new queens were the offspring of workers, not old queens. What is more, most of the eggs were laid by workers from other colonies, not resident workers.
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