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Desert elephants at the dried up Huab River in Namibia Female spraying sand to keep cool while standing guard over her calf, Damaraland, Namibia. Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts in Africa.
The desert bird assemblages have been studied in terms of their thermoregulation, coloration, breeding strategies and nomadism. The riverbeds and flatlands further away from the beaches are home to bush elephants , Chacma baboons , southern giraffe , lions , leopard , black rhinoceros , spotted and brown hyenas , gemsbok and springbok , among ...
The Hoanib is one of the 12 ephemeral seasonal rivers in the west of Namibia, where it used to be the border between northern Damaraland and Kaokoland. Its length is 27 kilometres (17 mi). Its length is 27 kilometres (17 mi).
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At least 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe's largest national park in recent weeks because of drought, their carcasses a grisly sign of what wildlife authorities and conservation groups say is ...
In August 2023 a goods train bound for Chalsa knocked down a pregnant Elephant at pillar 68 of Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary. The accident was so severe that the calf the mother elephant was carrying in her womb came out when the speeding goods train pierced through the pachyderm's belly. The elephant along with the unborn calf died on the spot.
Top weather news for Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025: Snow-covered roads led to treacherous travel conditions from the Plains and Midwest through the Tennessee Valley and mid-Atlantic a… AccuWeather 18 ...
Damaraland is central west. Damaraland was a name given to the north-central part of South West Africa, which later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras. It was bordered roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and the Windhoek region in the south.