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Salad for crabs

Red mangrove crabs scurry to score fallen leaves, salty appetisers served up by a stand of black mangrove trees.
04/11/07

Cleaner shrimps at work on eel

Cleaner shrimps work boldly in the mouth of a leopard moray eel, which has deadly teeth.
04/23/07

Spellbound by great whites

It's not often that you'll find footage of great white sharks filmed at close range without the benefit of a cage.
06/16/07

Meerkats huddle in the cold

A group of suricates – more commonly known as meerkats – return from their daily forage to huddle together in the bitter cold, before disappearing into their burrow.
06/29/07

Serval feasts on mamba

A serval cat feeds on a snake she has just killed – an uncommon sight, especially as the snake is a deadly black mamba.
07/06/07

Cheetahs watch the sun go down

Today we found the two male cheetahs we filmed yesterday lazing on an anthill in the sunset.
07/15/07

Showers over Myakka Lake

Showers and thunderstorms provide energy and nourishment during the rainy season.
08/15/07

Complex microcosm of wetland life

Clay Gully teems with life as butterflies flit amongst the tickseed flowers and ants crawl over carnivorous bladderworts.
08/15/07

Skimmers' nest-eggs add up

This particular flock of African skimmers has doubled in number over a two-year period, resulting in an unusually high density of nests on the banks of the Nxamaseri Channel.
08/15/07

Deer family in Myakka Park, Florida

Unconcerned by the human activity nearby, a small group of white-tailed deer rest in the shade.  
08/20/07

Rising temperatures mean muddier waters

With the onset of spring the water gets warmer, and decomposing vegetation increasingly muddies the channels and tributaries in the Nxamaseri region of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
08/22/07

Kites rest up in treetops

Swallow-tailed kites take a break from their usual aerobatic activities and perch in a dead tree, conserving their energy for the coming migration.
08/24/07

Skimmer uses beak to rescue egg

A female African skimmer makes repeated attempts to retrieve a damaged egg that has fallen out of its nest on a sandbank in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
08/29/07

Meerkats in motion

These engaging members of the mongoose family are forever interacting with one another and the world around them.
08/31/07

Meerkat babies emerge

As the weather warms up, the meerkat ‘baby-sitters’ allow the pups to make their first appearance in the light of day.
08/31/07

African skimmers protect and nurture chick

The first chicks of the season are still in their first few days of life – a precarious time for them, and a stressful time for their parents.
09/04/07

Desert migration

Every year, between May and November, thousands of zebra and wildebeest congregate near the Boteti River bed in Botswana, in search of water.
09/11/07

Enchanted Ecuador forest

Our first expedition into the equatorial jungle of Ecuador reveals a plethora of new species, from delicate yellow butterflies and hoatzin birds with long crests, to ‘chorongo’ monkeys.
09/14/07

The march of the leafcutter ant

Columns of leafcutter ants travel long distances along well worn “ant highways” to forage for leaves to take back to their underground fungus farms.
09/18/07