The barren Kalahari landscape offers little protection to its animal inhabitants. Masters of survival, they must overcome drought, dust, wind and heat to survive. Clans of resourceful meerkats resort to burrowing in the ground to avoid the many predators that await them in the ‘land of the big thirst.’
The bushveld is classic Africa: searingly hot, covered in scrubland and dominated by predators. Summer has been good, and a mother leopard has produced two cubs who have survived. It is now her duty to teach them the ways of the bushveld.
Burrowed beneath the African bushveld, animals like the hyena, aardvark and pangolin shelter, retreat to sleep and breed. As the winter dry season sets in, wild dogs — the most endangered mammal in Africa — abandon their nomadic existence to give birth in these underground dens.
Three great oceans meet at the southern tip of Africa and three distinct marine ecosystems extend their mingled currents thousands of miles around the continent, creating one of the most complex and varied marine environments on earth. The creatures here have developed unique body shapes, hunting...
