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The week’s most viewed stories May 23 2008

The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 16 May to Thursday 22 May 2008) were:

Number 1

Dolphins appear out of the blue


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Out in the bay where the waves break, a pod of these marine mammals emerges from deeper water.

Tags: africa, black rhino, blue, botswana, cub, dolphin, elephant, encounter, female, fluke, indian ocean, kwazulu-natal, leviathan, lion, mammal, okavango delta, popular, rhino, sodwana bay, south africa, western cape, whale, wildebeest, young

From the field

Wildebeest calves and impala lambs Feb 4 2008

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After the recent good rains in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, the grazing is abundant and herbivores are giving birth.

Tags: calf, grazing, herd, impala, lamb, mammal, predator, rain, vertebrate, wildebeest, young

Did you know?

Did you know? Blue wildebeest Jan 29 2008

This gregarious grazer is found in abundance in the grasslands and floodplains of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Tags: africa, communication, faeces, flood plain, grass, graze, herd, horn, scent, social, territorial, wildebeest

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The week’s most viewed stories Dec 14 2007

The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 07 December to Thursday 13 December 2007) were:

Number 1

Masters of the sneak

Zambezi sharks swim close to the lens, as their activity heightens ahead of the arrival of a cold front.


Tags: fly, maggot, sunrise, tsessebe, wildebeest

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This week’s most viewed stories Sep 15 2007

The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Fri 7 September to Thurs 13 September) have been:

Number 1

This week’s most popular story is Nature takes its course, a story about African skimmer chicks struggling to stay alive in the beautiful yet harsh Okavango Delta, in northern Botswana.

Tags: african skimmer, bass, bird, kwazulu-natal, makgadikgadi pan, manta ray, migration, potato bass, skimmer, south africa, wildebeest, zebra

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Zebra and wildebeest migration Sep 12 2007

In the last few days our Botswana crew has moved south from the relatively cool climes of the Nxamaseri Channel in the north of the lush Okavango Delta, to the bleached landscape and heat of the Kalahari Desert.

Tags: boteti river, kalahari desert, makgadikgadi national park, migration, wildebeest, zebra

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Earth-Touch team’s favourite stories of all time – please tell us yours? Aug 31 2007

We’ve canvassed the Earth-Touch team internally, and asked them to nominate some of their favourite footage published on the web portal so far. The results follow below.

We’’d love to hear what your favourite clips are – please post your votes and thoughts
as a comment to this blog.
The following stories received multiple votes:

Eyeball to eyeball with a great white shark

Watch the footage was filmed near Dyer Island, off the south-eastern coast of South Africa.

Tags: amphibian, bird, breathe, cheetah, crab, crocodile, crustacean, eastern cape, eel, gannet, great white shark, hippo, kwazulu-natal, mamba, mudhopper, mudskipper, plant, reptile, serval, snake eel, south africa, tsessebe, whale, wildebeest, zebra

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