Results tagged “okavango” on Earth Touch Blog
The week’s most viewed stories Jun 6 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 30 May to Thursday 05 June 2008) were:
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Dolphins appear out of the blue
Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.
The week’s most viewed stories May 30 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 23 May to Thursday 29 May 2008) were:
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Dolphins appear out of the blue
Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.
Elephants enjoy mudbath May 14 2008
As the seasons change in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, large numbers of elephants begin to move to new sources of water and food.
Tags: africa, botswana, elephant, forest, mammal, moremi, mudbath, okavangoDid you know? Marabou stork May 14 2008
Beautiful they are not, and we humans find some of their habits less than attractive too. Yet these birds have to be respected for their survival skills.
Tags: africa, bird, botswana, flamingo, marabou, namibia, okavango, scavenger, storkEgrets 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, okavangoThe 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 Apr 25 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 18 April to Thursday 24 April 2008) were:
Delta animals keep watch for each other Apr 10 2008
The Earth-Touch crew in Botswana’s Okavango Delta recently found antelope, baboons, vervet monkeys and birds mingling in a riverine forest, using each other’s senses for safety.
Tags: africa, alert, baboon, bird, botswana, delta, hear, impala, lookout, mammal, monkey, mopane, moremi, okavango, predator, see, sense, squirrel, vegetation, vervet, warn, waterbuckFish life in shallow Okavango waters Feb 14 2008
The Okavango Delta in Botswana, the world’s largest inland delta, is home to more than 80 fish species.
Tags: barbel, bird, botswana, delta, fish, okavangoThis week’s most viewed stories Feb 8 2008
The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 01 January to Thursday 07 January 2008) were:
Tags: delta, highlights, hippo, kwazulu-natal, okavango, shark, south africa, weekly, zambeziComing unstuck in the Delta Feb 6 2008
January’s downpours in the Okavango have made life difficult for the Earth-Touch field crew, but they are quick to learn.
Tags: africa, botswana, flood, okavango, okavango delta, rain, truckBirds in a feeding frenzy Feb 5 2008
The Earth-Touch crew came across a frenzied feeding scene in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Tags: bee-eater, bird, okavango, okavango deltaWildlife news from around the world
World Wetlands Day: Okavango Delta Feb 1 2008
As World Wetlands Day (2 February) approaches, Earth-Touch continues to publish video footage from an unlikely place for a wetland: the edge of a desert. (See video links below.)
Tags: africa, botswana, okavango, okavango delta, wetlandLions and smaller creatures of the Okavango Dec 20 2007
After a eating a tsessebe, lions laze in the long grass of the Okavango Delta in Botswana in the Earth-Touch clip, Small creatures lively while lions laze.
The lions are not active as they digest their meal, so the crew has a chance to film the smaller attractions of this area.
Tags: africa, amphibian, frog, okavangoRadio collars on lions Dec 13 2007
In several of our recent lion video clips from the Okavango Delta (for example, Risky brushes with lions, Lion cubs lead the way), you will have noticed that some of the lionesses have collars around their necks. These are radio transmitter collars used by biologists running a lion research project here in Botswana.
Lions prepare to mate Dec 5 2007
In Earth-Touch footage filmed on a windy day in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, a mature male lion is clearly attracted to the two lionesses in the group. Watch him scent-mark in the clip, Lions ready to mate in spectacular afternoon light.
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