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.
In the Okavango Delta of Botswana, we have been following the development of lion cubs and have discovered a den of leopard cubs too.
Also in Moremi Game Reserve, a zebra foal rests and a young chacma baboon tries out all sorts of positions in a tree.
In the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, warthog piglets drink from their mother before having a mud bath.
Meerkat pups emerge from their burrow for the first time in the Karoo, near the town of Oudtshoorn in South Africa.
Earth-Touch followed the fortunes of a breeding colony of African skimmers in the Okavango, and captured the first chick breaking out of its egg. Still with birdlife, we watched some yellow-billed kite chicks on the KwaZulu-Natal coast develop to the point of being able to fly.
We filmed a little elephant dipping its trunk in the water in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, not yet able to use it to drink.
Swimming also takes some practice, as we see with this southern right whale calf in the waters of the Western Cape.
Rhesus monkey babies cavort in a national park in Thailand, while endangered African wild dog pups are also playful in this Okavango clip.
Still too young to play, a newborn giraffe is led away from the herd by its protective mother.
You can even see some juvenile fish at Ribbon Reef, Sodwana Bay.
Image © Earth-Touch 2008
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