Animals Are Beautiful People
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At the water holes, there is so much
traffic that all the grass is worn away.

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Zebra in their thousands.
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Graceful kudu, the males
with beautiful horns...

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...the females with beautiful ears.
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Oryx, who, unlike their cousins in the Namib,
revel in the abundant water.

1:00:44
Ostrich.
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The fussy-looking secretary bird,
who's very good at short takeoffs...

1:00:50
...but needs a heck of a long runway
for landing.

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The towering giraffe,
who makes the zebra look like toys.

1:01:24
Some years there's even a vast shallow
lake for a short while after the rain...

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...where water birds converge
in great numbers.

1:01:32
The lake covers 8000 square miles, but it's
only a few inches to a few feet in depth.

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And most years,
a great flock of pelicans establish...

1:01:43
...their breeding colony
in the middle of the lake.

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They look stodgy and comical
on the ground and pompous in the air.

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But on water, they have style and elegance.
1:01:57
They gather in flotillas
to herd fish into the shallows...


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