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Kalahari
[ kah-luh-hahr-ee, kal-uh- ]
noun
- a desert region in SW Africa, largely in Botswana. 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km).
Kalahari
/ ˌkæləˈhɑːrɪ /
noun
- the Kalaharian extensive arid plateau of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. Area: 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles) Also known asthe Kalahari Desert
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Vlad Demartsev and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin from the Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and the University of Konstanz, together with collaborators from the University of Zurich, deployed collars on meerkats in several groups at the Kalahari Research Centre in South Africa.
However, forty years ago, only two large intact wildebeest migrations remained in Africa: the famed Great Migration of the Serengeti-Mara and one in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa.
"However, in Botswana in particular, fencing to protect cattle from coming into contact with migratory wild animals was put up in recent times. Botswana's Kalahari population declined from roughly 260,000 in the 1970's to fewer than 15,000 in the late 1980's. So today, the only remaining large population is that of the Serengeti-Mara. But the Serengeti-Mara migration is also threatened by plans for roads and rail corridors through the area, which worries many," says Mikkel Sinding from the Department of Biology, another of the study's first authors.
The trees were discovered growing beneath the Kalahari sands of highland Angola, in central Africa.
These findings stem from a remarkable continuous decade-long field study of 40 family groups of sparrow weavers in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa.
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