Seeing red under a blazing sun!
May 26th 2007 10:56
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Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa, 1995
Photograph by Chris Johns
The seemingly empty landscape of the Kalahari Desert is full of clues to the whereabouts of potential prey for these San Bushmen hunters. Bushmen can read the desert like a book, studying droppings, tree markings, and hoof prints to determine an animal's species, gender, and age. They can estimate when an animal has passed through a certain area by the time it takes termites to rebuild a nest that’s been trampled, or a blade of grass to spring back upright, or a spider to repair its cobweb.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Place for Parks in the New South Africa," July 1996, National Geographic magazine)
Kalahari Desert
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Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
what a fantastic picture, and an excellent graphic to go along with it...
Well done!
Take care,
Nick
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