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The towering giraffe,
who makes the zebra look like toys.
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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.
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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...
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...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.
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They gather in flotillas
to herd fish into the shallows...
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...where they dip in a graceful ballet
to collect food for their chicks.
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But the lake and the many
water holes are impermanent.
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Soon the water will sink away
into the Kalahari sand...
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...and there'll be a long, grim wait
of nine months or more...
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...before the rain comes again.
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The only human beings...
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...in the deep Kalahari
are a few Bushmen.
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They don't live in tribes, but
roam about in small family groups.
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The region is so vast that
one family hardly ever meets another.
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They must be the most carefree
and contented people in the world...
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...because they own nothing.
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In the desert, there's nothing
you can own, but everything you need.
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They're also the most gentle people,
possibly because they've never seen...