Results tagged “forage” on Earth Touch Blog
Warthog chases cheetahs away Jun 9 2008
The Earth-Touch crew witnessed an unusual encounter in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, in South Africa, recently. They were filming a group of cheetahs resting in the bush, when a family of warthogs arrived on the scene and the female warthog proceeded to chase the cheetahs away.
Tags: africa, chase, cheetah, feed, forage, hluhluwe, imfolozi, mammal, south africa, vertebrate, warthogA fruitful wait at the river pool Apr 8 2008
Sometimes, it pays just to sit and wait. When the Earth-Touch crew arrived at a pool in a tributary of the Black Umfolozi River in South Africa’s Imfolozi Game Reserve, they decided just to enjoy the view and see what happened.
Tags: africa, antelope, bird, black umfolozi, call, forage, hamerkop, imfolozi, kwazulu-natal, mammal, marking, mocking cliff-chat, nyala, pool, river, riverine forest, south africaThe 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:
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Close encounter with a leviathan
Wattled cranes feeding Feb 6 2008
The Okavango Delta in Botswana is one of the last wetland breeding grounds available for the wattled crane (Bugeranus carunculatus).
Tags: bird, crane, flood plain, forage, wattled crane, wetlandBuffalo chase off lions Nov 20 2007
Despite the bigs cats being dubbed “king of the jungle”, the heavy mass of a herd of buffalo is too much for a pride of lions as they are chased by buffalo in the Earth-Touch clip, Lions foiled by buffalo herd.
Elephant musth Oct 29 2007
In the Earth-Touch clip, Elephant bulls feeding, a bull elephant is seen to be in musth. In this state, the bull drips concentrated, testosterone-filled urine onto its legs, advertising its quest to find a mate. Secretions from the temporal glands run down the side of its head.
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