Results tagged “floodplain” on Earth Touch Blog
Baboons feed on grass seeds May 15 2008
It’s late afternoon on the banks of the Black Umfolozi River in South Africa’s oldest game reserve, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi. In the autumn sunshine, a troop of chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) is feeding.
Tags: africa, baboon, chacma, eat, floodplain, grass, groom, hluhluwe, imfolozi, mammal, primate, river, savannah, social, south africaEgrets follow lechwe May 6 2008
The ridged and lyre-shaped horns of male red lechwe (Kobus leche) can be put to lethal effect in the breeding season, but when the Earth-Touch crew came across a herd in the Moremi Game Reserve, in Botswana, the effect was more decorative.
Tags: bird, botswana, egret, floodplain, graze, horn, lechwe, mammal, moremi, okavangoDid you know? Collared pratincole Feb 22 2008
Collared pratincoles migrate to the Okavango Delta in Botswana every summer to nest in small scrapes in the ground.
Tags: bird, botswana, collared pratincole, flock, floodplain, habitat, okavango delta, pratincole, wetlandPage 1 of 1 pages
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