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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? Hyena Nov 19 2007
As hyenas are scavengers there is often intense competition at kill sites to get enough food as fast as possible. That is why a lot of what is consumed at kills is hair, bones and teeth. The hyena’’s digestive fluids are adapted to enable them to digest bones and teeth, but hair cannot be digested.
Tags: bone, den, digest, fur, hyena, hyenas, mammal, scavenger, teeth, vertebrateDid you know? - Meerkats Sep 1 2007
A baby meerkat emerges from its burrow.
A baby meerkat is called a “pup”. Meerkats can produce several litters a year, usually of three or so young at a time.
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