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• 1.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 1
• Africa is dominated by deserts, from the Kalahari in the south to the mighty Sahara in the north. These are fascinating worlds, each one unique, all a...
• 2.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 2
• In this barren sea of sand, it's harder for larger animals to find enough to eat. You've got to be a real specialist, like the Namib sand snake. By si...
• 3.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 3
• Pinning the ants to the hot sand surface, the spiders first cook them to death before dragging them under. In the Namib, even the toughest animals str...
• 4.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 4
• With the spider exposed, it's now a battle between the wasp's paralyzing sting and the spider's jaws. But the wasp has quick reflex es. Cornered, the ...
• 5.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 5
• Each melon is a valuable package of moisture and seeds. The plant also benefits from this plunder as its seeds may be carried for fifty kilometers in ...
• 6.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 6
• On certain nights, the secret is revealed. Warm, damp air moving in from the mid-Atlantic is transformed to fog as it crosses the cold coastal current...
• 7.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 7
• In spring , the desert undergoes a remarkable transformation. For just a few weeks a year, the flowers of over 3, 000 different plant species turn thi...
• 8.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 8
• Within a month, the spring blooms are finished. The plants now set their seeds, taking advantage of the warm summer winds which sweep the desert. For ...
• 9.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 9
• It’s the wettest of all African deserts, the great Kalahari. The sands of the Kalahari cover more of southern Africa than any other desert. But the h...
• 10.Wild Africa - Deserts 浩瀚沙漠 - 10
• Living underground, mole rats are sheltered from the Kalahari's worst extremes of temperature. We think of deserts as hot places. But nightly temperat...