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14:09These bizarre little birds are baby ostriches.
14:16They're just a few days old.
14:23In time, they'll become superb desert survivors.
14:28But in the Kalahari, these early days are perilous.
14:34Like leopards and meerkats,
14:36adult ostriches can extract all the moisture they require from their food.
14:42The chicks, however, won't survive much more than another day without water.
14:49But there's none in sight.
14:51How can their parents conjure up water out here?
15:06The youngsters follow their parents as they head out onto a featureless wasteland.
15:23It seems like a suicidal journey.
15:25The Etosha salt pan.
15:41Here, water is more often a mirage than reality.
15:45It's now well over 40 degrees centigrade.
15:54Their father shades his chicks from the midday sun.
15:59Good day, son.
16:08Another mirage?
16:14No. The ostrich family is not alone out here.
16:18Surrounded by miles of sun-baked mud.
16:30Sweet, fresh water wells up from deep below ground.
16:37Like a miracle.
16:38Although the ostrich parents have guided their chicks to water,
17:03there's still a problem.
17:05Traffic.
17:06Heavy traffic.
17:14These tiny, fragile birds could easily be trampled underfoot.
17:21The water is tantalizingly close.
17:23Where prey gathers, predators are never far behind.
17:35The water is tarping.
17:36The water is not very far behind.
17:37The river is very far behind.
17:39The wind's Chal Tyrion's eyes are never far behind.
17:42The wind's Chalry's eyes become not very far behind.
17:45The wind's Chalry's eyes can be priniescoves into the air.
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17:51The years of Chalry's eyes can be pulled into the air.
17:52Let's go.
18:22The brawling lions have unwittingly done the young ostriches a favour.
18:34The waterhole is now clear.
18:39Sometimes you need a bit of luck in life.
18:47Their first ever drink, and just in time.
19:11Their father's done his job.
19:18A black rhinoceros, the Kalahari's most cantankerous resident.
19:39They don't like company, and they certainly don't like sharing a waterhole with lions.
19:46Fortunately, for everyone else that is, they only visit twice a week.
19:51The Kalahari is the black rhino's last stronghold.
20:07And here, under the cover of darkness, at one secret and very special waterhole,
20:16rhino abandon their normally solitary life and come from miles around to meet under the stars.
20:23Using the latest starlight camera, we can reveal for the first time the rhino's true character.
20:42This young female seems nervous.
20:45She senses other rhinos close by.
20:50A mother appears from the shadows with her calf.
21:04Tentatively, they greet one another.
21:11They may be ill-tempered by day, but now they become gentle and affectionate.
21:25More and more arrive.
21:36We had no idea that rhinos met to socialize and build friendships like this.
21:55The young female has an admirer.
22:16But she doesn't seem keen on him.
22:24She's excited about something.
22:26Or someone.
22:31Here comes a really big male.
22:39This time, she's much more welcoming.
22:46Who would have thought that rhino could be so flirtatious?
23:07The first male tries to come between them.
23:11Somehow or other, he's got a pair of antelope horns stuck on his nose.
23:16It looks as if she's been run over by his eccentric style.
23:25He leads her off away from the party.
23:52He may have style, but he's turning out to be something of a disappointment.
23:59The only way she can get rid of him is to pretend she's asleep.
24:27To see so many rhino in one place is a revelation.
24:34And that's the power water has here.
24:37The power to bring together the greatest gathering of rhinos anywhere on Earth.
24:42Spitzkoppa.
25:03An ancient volcano that towers above a plateau that is two billion years old.
25:16This land has remained unchanged for longer than any other part of Africa.
25:25Animals here have had a long time to find inventive solutions to the challenge of finding water.
25:31Out on the open plains, life must await the world.
25:59Out on the open plains, life must await the chance arrival of rain.
26:06When it does fall, it has an extraordinary effect.
26:14Each sporadic downpour may only last minutes, but it can bring life.
26:19And in spectacular numbers.
26:21Red-billed coolia.
26:36They're the most numerous bird in the world.
26:40In all, more than a billion live here in the Kalahari.
26:45No one knows quite how, but they seem to have an extraordinary ability to locate the fall of rain
26:51and then instantly exploit the bonanza that follows.
26:54These nomads now have just five weeks to find food, build a nest, and raise a brood.
27:19But they're not alone.
27:31The rains have also created a plague.
27:38These are armored ground crickets.
27:53Giant insects with voracious appetites for meat.
27:58With the queenia parents away feeding, their chicks are defenseless.
28:11The rains
28:27the night
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28:34The adults returned.
29:04But the cricket fights back, squirting its own foul-tasting blood into their eyes.
29:34The cricket is still alive, but the stench of its blood attracts the attention of others.
29:47Now it is the target.
30:00These crickets become cannibals.
30:03All too soon, the bonanza brought by the rain is over, and the quillia head off in search
30:25of the next rare downpour.
30:32The Kanahari is scarred by rivers that have long since run dry, the water claimed by the
30:53thirsty land.
31:06But it's not gone far.
31:13Deep below lies a secret.
31:17One that was discovered only 25 years ago.
31:34Humid air rushing to the surface gives this place its name, Dragon's Breath Cave.
31:51The shaft descends for 60 meters until it meets...
31:58Water.
32:00Here, there is a massive chamber big enough to swallow three jumbo jets nose to tail, filled
32:10with cool, fresh water.
32:13The world's largest underground lake.
32:27This is fossil water.
32:31It's been trapped here undisturbed for thousands, if not millions, of years.
32:36We have no idea how deep the lake is.
32:42Divers have been down to 100 meters, and still there's no sign of the bottom.
32:56Remarkably, Dragon's Breath is part of a vast cave system that extends beneath the Kalahari
33:03for thousands of miles.
33:06Even here, in this lonely cave, there is life.
33:25Golden catfish, only found in this one cave.
33:30They're the rarest and most isolated fish in the world.
33:35Life down here is as challenging as it is in the desert above.
33:42There's no food except the debris that occasionally falls onto the surface.
33:50And these catfish are totally blind.
33:57The only world they know is the one they sense through touch.
34:02A blind fish living in perpetual darkness, deep beneath one of the most arid regions of Africa.
34:14Such cruel irony.
34:24So much water, hidden away, out of reach.
34:29So much water, hidden away, out of reach.
34:34Along the western edge of the Kalahari, the land becomes so dry, it seems impossible that any life could survive here.
34:42The Namib, a million square miles of sand exquisitely sculpted by the wind.
34:57This is the oldest desert in the world.
35:12Respite comes from fog rolling in from the Atlantic Ocean.
35:25It condenses into a few precious drops.
35:31Just enough to sustain life.
35:44A pompelid wasp is searching the dunes.
35:50She's not looking for a drink, but for somewhere moist to lay her egg.
36:02How will she pull off a trick like that?
36:07The entrance to a burrow.
36:13That's worth investigating.
36:23She may be tiny, but once she decides to dig, she can shift extraordinary quantities of sand.
36:29She's unearthed this spider for a grisly purpose.
36:50It's so dry, the only place with enough moisture for her egg is within the body of another living thing.
37:06First, she must paralyse her victim.
37:13But then, the spider plays its trump card.
37:20The aptly named golden wheel spider can cartwheel fast enough to escape its gruesome fate.
37:50For the wasp, her near-impossible search goes on.
38:20If it's hard enough for a tiny wasp to survive here in the Namib, how is it possible for a giant?
38:38A desert giraffe.
38:42It's difficult to imagine how such a huge animal can live in a place with so little water.
38:48This old male is at the very limit of his endurance.
38:59The land may be bone dry, but there are signs that water once flowed here.
39:17The hawanib, one of Namibia's rivers.
39:28A river of sand.
39:32The trees that line these sand rivers send roots down over 30 meters to tap water that lies deep beneath the riverbed.
39:46These trees are the giraffe's salvation.
39:48Even if he has to stretch to his very tallest to get a mouthful.
39:49Even if he has to stretch to his very tallest to get a mouthful.
39:53Even on tiptoe, he still needs a half-meter-long tongue to reach the leaves he so badly needs.
39:56Even on tiptoe, he still needs a half-meter-long tongue to reach the leaves he so badly needs.
40:00Even on tiptoe, even on tiptoe, he still needs a half-meter-long tongue to reach the leaves he so badly needs.
40:21He's ruled the stretch of the hawanib for over a decade, and this prime territory is attracting females.
40:49He waits confidently for her.
40:59But they've got company.
41:14A young male.
41:17The
41:44The old bull won't tolerate a rival.
42:06Pushing and shoving, they size each other up.
42:14The young rival seems to think he has a chance and attacks.
42:33The first few blows usually settle things in such battles, but here the stakes are high.
42:38To lose means exile in the desert.
42:53Neither will back down.
43:00As the fight intensifies, they change tactics.
43:04The young male aims for the rump.
43:07The old bull targets his rival's legs.
43:12LIMIT MUSIC
43:49The old bull is down.
44:11Is this the end of his reign?
44:19He knows a knockout blow is coming.
44:22But the old bull ducks
44:37And strike a blow to his rival's underbelly.
44:46The old bull ducks
45:10Out for the count.
45:36The old bull is victorious.
45:40But only just.
45:53The Sand River remains his to rule.
46:10It's a river that is about to be transformed.
46:22Under clear blue skies, water floods down the Hoennib, the welcome consequence of rain that
46:40fell hundreds of miles away, the water may only flow for a matter of hours.
46:58But this miraculous flood is enough to provide a lifeline for the trees and the giraffes
47:08of the Hoennib River.
47:12It's what makes this place worth fighting for.
47:21Here, fossil lakes, secret water holes, desert fog, and ephemeral rivers like this provide
47:46just enough water for life to get by, no matter how tough it gets.
47:56It's hard to find more inventive solutions to staying alive than in this, the most ancient
48:02corner of Africa.
48:04For four years, the Africa team searched the continent for new and surprising stories.
48:09Not only of strange and unfamiliar creatures, but also of some we see in the world, but also
48:14of some we see in the world.
48:16For four years, the Africa team searched the continent for new and surprising stories.
48:21Not only of strange and unfamiliar creatures, but also of some we think we know.
48:42Veteran wildlife cameraman Martin Kolbeck took on the challenge of shedding new light on
48:47the life of Namibia's desert giraffe.
48:56I jumped at the opportunity of working with an animal that I hadn't really spent much time
48:59with.
49:00Straight away, they proved to be quite an eye opener.
49:04They're very bizarre looking animals.
49:06We just kept looking at them from different angles, and they looked even weirder.
49:14The combination of the sort of weird close-ups, the beautiful landscape that they're in, they're
49:19amusing.
49:22I got really attached to them, actually.
49:28Overlying all this, we were always waiting for a fight.
49:33But to see a full-blooded fight is very rare.
49:37So the only way that we were going to see it is if we stuck at it day after day, every
49:42day, for 30 days.
49:45We were lucky enough that we found a male guarding a female.
49:54And out of nowhere, this male came around the corner.
50:02And almost immediately faced up to our male.
50:10Absolutely no warning that this was going to happen.
50:12So it was complete pandemonium in the car.
50:15Luckily, I got the camera up and running in time to actually capture this fight.
50:20And it all came down to one minute in real time.
50:28When I filmed it, you don't see it in slow motion.
50:31And you just have to go with the flow.
50:36You're not experiencing the fight.
50:38You're just basically framing it and capturing it.
50:41So it was only afterwards when we looked at it in slow motion that you could really understand
50:45how ferocious it was.
50:53You can see the impacts on the skin.
50:55You can see the ripples going through the flesh.
51:01But it was the final blows that delivered the real surprise.
51:05It was like one of those chimneys falling down.
51:07And the last moment, the head just went clunk.
51:31And we thought it was dead.
51:36We thought this thing was dead.
51:39And it lay there for, it must have been three minutes.
51:43Eventually, this thing suddenly got up, the one that was lying down.
51:48And the two of them were then standing.
51:51And then the one that had been knocked over completely then just said, I've had enough.
51:56OK, OK, you won, and I'm off.
52:03I think it's very unlikely I'm going to see anything like that again.
52:07I think that's a once in a lifetime, I really do.
52:13It won't be easy to look at giraffes in the same way again.
52:22On the other side of the desert, another of Africa's great animal icons was attracting the attention of the team as they staked out a secret waterhole.
52:32They hope to reveal a very different side to the personality of the black rhinoceros.
52:47The team have heard that at night rhinos behave a little strangely.
53:05Built starlight camera would allow the team to pierce the darkness.
53:15It's amazing.
53:16That's filming something we can't even see.
53:19Yeah, we can look out there now.
53:21Yeah, it's just black, isn't it?
53:23But through this, it looks as sharp as dead.
53:26Rhinos are notoriously antisocial, yet here they come to revel in each other's company.
53:35This is amazing.
53:39This is such intimate behavior, which you can only see filming them at night like this.
53:46It's incredible.
53:55But it wasn't just cameras that would show a new side to rhinos.
54:01By concealing tiny radio microphones around the waterhole, the crew hoped to eavesdrop on the night's activity.
54:11And what they heard was astonishing.
54:26They're really talkative.
54:32They're really not having a good chat.
54:35These guys are far more communicative than elephants even.
54:41It's just going on and on, chatting away.
54:51It's a beautiful crystal clear night.
54:55So we've got beautiful starry shots.
54:57Loads of amazing noise.
54:59Puffing and huffing.
55:07So it's about two in the morning.
55:09One rhino left up there.
55:11The rest of them have gone to bed, but he's decided to lie down all right on top of the radio mic.
55:29The crew prepared for one more night at the waterhole under the full moon.
55:41It seems that they're not really here for the water, but more to socialize.
55:47A bit like going out for the evening.
55:53He's got some kudu horns on his face, draped over his nose.
56:01That's all on camera, dude.
56:06These images have a particular poignancy in a world where rhino horn is worth more than its weight in gold.
56:15Poaching is going through a really bad time right now.
56:18In southern Africa, if you averaged it out, a rhino has been killed every day for the last year.
56:27That's really serious poaching.
56:31It's a huge concern that what we saw and filmed just won't happen again, ever.
56:40It's only now that technology has revealed a new side to the rhino's personality.
56:48The black rhinoceros is a symbol of the African bush, but it seems that this creature has been long misunderstood.
57:06For the Africa team, revealing giraffes and rhinos in this new light was just the beginning.
57:12Africa may be a continent we think we know, but it's still full of surprises.
57:19It's still full of surprises.
57:20It's still full of surprises.
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