Botswana Wildlife Behaviour
  • A Wildlife Guide
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains why Botswana is considered one of Africa’s premier wildlife countries and great choice for African safaris...
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  • Animal Emotions
    This Botswana animal behaviour guide explains that animals show emotion. For example, Elephants mourn their dead or baboons carry their dead babies...
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  • Animal Language
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide talks about communication patterns of wildlife species - from warning calls to Elephants emitting ultra-sonic sounds...
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  • Animal Movement
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide gives ideas about why animals are moving. It explains zebra migrations, nomadism and the role of competition...
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  • Animal Senses - Hearing
    If an animal has small or large ears or pinnae depends on its habitat. This Botswana Wildlife Guide about the hearing sense of animals explains why Kudus...
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  • Animal Senses - Sight
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide about the animal sense of sight shows how the animal's developed eyes are needed for moving, finding food and avoiding danger...
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  • Animal Senses - Smell
    The sense of smell is widely used in animal bevaviour. This Botswana Wildlife Guide shows how wildlife can detect food, competitors, sexual readiness...
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  • Botswana Habitats
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide describes the various habitats from the Kalahari Desert to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Linyanti Swamp and Okavango Delta...
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  • Do Animals Talk
    This Botswana Guide describes how species communicate with each other, what their alarm or distress calls mean or what their body posture tells...
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  • Elephant Population of Botswana
    Botswana is known to have the highest elephant population in Africa, with the Chobe River supporting up to 50 000 in the dry season when the water in the hinterland had dried up...
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  • Feeding
    This Botswana Wildlife Behaviour Guide explains the differences between grazers, browsers or carnivores. It also describes meat-eating herbivores...
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  • Fighting Back
    Inter-species dominance comes into play when food is scarce. This Botswana Wildlife Guide tells of Giraffes fighting back and an interaction between...
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  • Human and Animal Association
    Due to human carelessness some species such as Hyena, Baboons and Monkeys begin to associate humans with food and then will become a ‘problem’...
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  • Interspecies Relationships
    In this Botswana Wildlife Guide the interaction between specific species, called symbiosis, is described. Animals warn each other or pick parasites off...
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  • Learning
    Playing is very important for young wildlife. This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains how cubs learn important survival techniques while playing...
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  • Mating Rituals
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains the different mating rituals and how animals reach dominance. It's interesting that Hyena society is female dominated...
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  • Predator Hunting Techniques
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains which of the predator hunting techniques, stamina, stealth, power, speed, patience, smell, sound or sight, is used...
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  • Scavenging
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide about scavenging in the African wilderness will clear up if Hyenas or Lions are scavengers. Find out on a Botswana Safari...
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  • Species and Areas
    This Botswana Wildlife Guide explains area specific differences of species. The differentiation can be made between wildlife living in wetlands or desserts...
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  • The Predator Chain
    It's interesting that hyenas are dominant over lions. This Botswana guide explains why the king of the beasts is not on top of the predator chain...
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