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Botswana

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Fiery sunset on the Okavango Delta (also called the Okavango Swamp), the world's largest inland delta. The Okavango River empties as a swamp in a basin of the Kalahari Desert where, through the processes of evaporation and transpiration (water given off by plants), it disappears. Most of the islands in the delta began as termite mounds. The delta is home for a wide variety of birds and animals.
Pictured is a giraffe moving across the veld in Botswana. Giraffes are herbivores and spend most of their lives standing up (including sleeping and giving birth). No two giraffes have the same pattern of spots. Documentation of giraffes are found on ancient Egyptian tomb paintings and they were treated as valuable royal pets throughout the world for millennia. The giraffe population faces threats from the destruction of their natural habitats and illegal poaching.
A resting but wary leopard.
A grazing water buffalo in Chobe National Park.
Elephant on the move at Chobe National Park, Botswana's first national park and also its most biologically diverse. Located in the north of the country, it has one of the greatest concentrations of game in all of Africa.
Grazing hippopotamus at Chobe National Park.
A colony of marabou storks at Chobe National Park.
Lions resting in the shade at Chobe National Park.
Adult elephants are very protective and caring of their young. This photo was taken in Chobe National Park.
A giraffe in Chobe National Park.
Kudus on the move at Chobe National Park.
A large herd of impala in Chobe National Park.
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