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Did You Know? Welwitschia Apr 30 2008
The Welwitschia mirabilis is a strange-looking plant found in the fog belt of Namibia and southern Angola.
Tags: angola, atlantic, cone, desert, fog, germinate, leaf, namib, namibia, plant, reproduce, root, seedWeavers at work Jan 29 2008
The spectacled weaver is an impressive nest-builder, as you can see in the Earth-Touch clip, Weavers work on a nest.
First, the birds strip the leaves off the stem on which they are going to attach the nest, unless the tree is a fir or palm. They then tightly weave strips of fine plant material into a structure which has a downward-pointing entrance tunnel.
Tags: bird, blyde canyon, chin, egg, female, fir, incubate, leaf, male, nest, palm, plant, south africa, spectacled weaver, weave, weaver, yellowThe marula tree Jan 29 2008
This tree, Sclerocarya birrea, is found in Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Swaziland, amongst other African countries. It bears small, round fruit, yellow when ripe and green when unripe, which can be harvested from January to March.
There are countless myths and legends about this tree.
Tags: africa, bark, colour, crop, elephant, fertility, fruit, goat, leaf, malaria, marula, medicine, myth, namibia, pestle and mortar, plant, relish, sotho, south africa, swaziland, venda, wood, worm, wound, zimbabwe, zuluCoatis in a palm grove Jan 29 2008
The coati (Nasua nasua) is a raccoon-like mammal with a ringed tail and a long, flexible nose which is somewhat turned up, allowing it to nose about under leaf litter for food. Watch a group of coatis doing this in the Earth-Touch clip, Coatis forage in a palm grove, filmed in the Pantanal of Brazil. These forest dwellers eat fruit and invertebrates.
Ants on the go Sep 20 2007
The creatures in the Earth-Touch clip The march of the leafcutter ant are truly amazing.
Leafcutter ants cut up leaves with their jaws, which act like miniature power tools and vibrate at a thousand times a second.
Tags: ant, ecuador, egg, fly, fungi, jaw, larvae, leaf, leafcutter ant, south americaPage 1 of 1 pages
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