Results tagged “eastern cape” on Earth Touch Blog
The week’s most viewed stories (March 14 to 20 2008) Mar 21 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 14 March to Thursday 20 March 2008) were:
Number 1
Close encounter with a leviathan
Flickr group: pic of the day – baby vervet monkey Mar 4 2008
This photo of a baby vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops) has been chosen as our Earth-Touch Flickr group “picture of the day”.
Tags: africa, dwesa, eastern cape, male, mammal, monkey, south africa, troop, vertebrate, vervet monkeyNew species or knot? Feb 27 2008
As a nature lover and couch biologist, one of the things I would love to do is discover a new species. This little worm of about 15cm (6in) long and 1mm (0.04in) diameter (see next photo for size reference) is my best bet to date!
Tags: africa, dwesa, eastern cape, invertebrate, south africa, wormDid you know? Ragged-tooth shark Jan 31 2008
The most obvious distinguishing feature of the spotted ragged-tooth shark (Carcharias taurus, also known as the grey nurseshark or sandtiger) must be its impressive set of teeth. There are around 44-48 upper teeth and 41-46 lower teeth. The shark is constantly replacing its older teeth with new ones. A ragged-tooth shark can go through around 30 000 teeth in its lifetime.
Tags: eastern cape, eye, feed, isimangaliso wetland park, kwazulu-natal, pregnant, ragged-tooth shark, skin, sodwana, south africa, spot, teeth5 most popular Earth-Touch clips so far Sep 7 2007
1. Meerkats huddle in the cold
Oudtshoorn, South Africa > Meerkat
29 June, 2007
A group of suricates – more commonly known as meerkats – return from their daily forage to huddle together in the bitter cold, before disappearing into their burrow.
Earth-Touch team’s favourite stories of all time – please tell us yours? Aug 31 2007
We’ve canvassed the Earth-Touch team internally, and asked them to nominate some of their favourite footage published on the web portal so far. The results follow below.
We’’d love to hear what your favourite clips are – please post your votes and thoughts
as a comment to this blog.
The following stories received multiple votes:
Eyeball to eyeball with a great white shark
Watch the footage was filmed near Dyer Island, off the south-eastern coast of South Africa.
Tags: amphibian, bird, breathe, cheetah, crab, crocodile, crustacean, eastern cape, eel, gannet, great white shark, hippo, kwazulu-natal, mamba, mudhopper, mudskipper, plant, reptile, serval, snake eel, south africa, tsessebe, whale, wildebeest, zebra
Sardines canned for this year? Jul 23 2007
By Reina Luck and Tara Turkington, editorial team
Sardines? What sardines?
It looks as if for the second year in a row, the anxiously-awaited sardine run up the east coast of South Africa is doomed to become a non-event. While the water stays stubbornly warm, the sardines stay put.
Tags: crew, eastern cape, footage, port st john's, sardine, sardine run, south africaPage 1 of 1 pages
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