Results tagged “karoo” on Earth Touch Blog
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, zebraThe 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
1 mongoose, many mongooses’ Sep 3 2007
Did you know that the plural of mongoose is mongooses, rather than mongeese? Watch the latest three Earth-Touch stories on a typically delightful and sociable meerkat family, living in the arid Little Karoo region of South Africa. A litter of pups has just been born, adding to the number of mongooses in the group.
Did 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.
Tags: den, karoo, little karoo, meerkat, pup, social, south africaMeet the meerkats Jul 19 2007
By Reina Luck, editorial team
Have you met the meerkats yet? They’re such comical little creatures as they come scuttling home from their day out in the chilly winter veld of the Little Karoo before they dive down into their snug sleeping burrow. With their large bright eyes and inquisitive behaviour they’re like a group of neighbourhood busybodies keeping each other acquainted of the latest gossip.
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