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  • Baobab tree - Okavango Delta - Botswana<br />
Baobab is the common name of a genus of trees (Adansonia). There are eight species. Six species live in Madagascar, one in mainland Africa, and one in Australia. The baobab is the national tree of Madagascar.<br />
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Other common names include 'boab', 'boaboa', 'bottle tree', 'the tree of life', 'upside-down tree', and 'monkey bread tree'. The trees reach heights of 5 to 30 metres (16 to 98 ft) and trunk diameters of 7 to 11 metres (23 to 36 ft). Its trunk can hold up to 120,000 litres of water. For most of the year, the tree is leafless, and looks very much like it has its roots sticking up in the air.
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  • African Sunrise -  Masaii Mara - Kenya <br />
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A silhoutted Flat-Top Acacia (Acacia abyssinica) tree adorns the fiery morning sky in the Masaii Mara as a group of Hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus) slowly pass by. The sunrises can be so beautiful in the Mara.  There is a brief period of time that only lasts for a few minutes where the whole sky lights on fire with this beautiful color just before and as the sun crests the horizon.  And then within just a few minutes, the color is gone.
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  • Sunrise in the Masaii Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
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  • This tree as completely overtaken this part of the temple grounds at Ta Prohm.<br />
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Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, pronunciation: brasaeattaproh) is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer: រាជវិហារ). Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors. UNESCO inscribed Ta Prohm on the World Heritage List in 1992. Today, it is one of the most visited complexes in Cambodia’s Angkor region. The conservation and restoration of Ta Prohm is a partnership project of the Archaeological Survey of India and the APSARA (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap).
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  • Patterns and trends begun to evolve whereby the populations that inhabited the lakeshores slowly moved progressively higher into the uplands, which required felling trees for food and fuel production. This trend, coupled with the very fertile land capable of producing food, is why these rural areas have some of the highest population densities in all of Africa. As a result of an ever-present slow drift of people toward the uplands, the forests were continuing to disappear at an alarming rate.<br />
From the Ruhija Research Station looking out across the forest in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park toward the Virunga Volcanoes in neighboring Rwanda and the Democractic Republic of Congo the impact of land clearing is visible in the stretch of farmland in the middle of the photo. The most significant land clearing has occurred within the last five hundred to a thousand years and ultimately led to a permanent separation between the once contiguous forests of Bwindi and the Virungas.
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  • Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) <br />
Virunga Volcanoes - Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda <br />
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Giant mossy Hagenia trees and lush herbaceous vegetation surround this silverback from Beetsme’s group, one of the research groups monitored and studied by the Karisoke Research Center in Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda.
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  • African Elephant (Loxadonta africana)  -   Mana Pools National Park – Zimbabwe <br />
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This is a great example of a unique behavior that I've only seen here in Mana Pools National Park and in the forest in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.  At this time of the year the acacia trees have pods on their branches that the elephants are quite fond of.  They eat everything in reach first, then when they have to go higher, they will start shifting their body back and forth and then use the momentum to launch themselves up in the air.  With the additional height, they can grab the higher branches pull them down, strip them and eat them.  Sometimes they will go all the way up with their entire body supported on one foot.  It's quite a wonderful thing to see...<br />
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Elephants are the largest land animals. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kilograms (260 lb). They typically live for 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1956. This male weighed about 12,000 kilograms (26,000 lb), with a shoulder height of 4.2 meters (14 ft), a meter (yard) taller than the average male African elephant. Healthy adult elephants have no natural predators, although lions may take calves or weak individuals. They are, however, increasingly threatened by human intrusion and poaching. Once numbering in the millions, the African elephant population has dwindled.
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  • Hoodoos - grotesque, eerie and often whimsical... are on display here, along with ancient trees and scenic views from the rim. Famous for its unique geology of red rock spires and horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters, Bryce offers the visitor a "Far View" from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. Bryce Canyon National Park is a scientist's laboratory and a child's playground. Because Bryce transcends 2000 feet (650 m) of elevation, the park exists in three distinct climatic zones: spruce/fir forest, Ponderosa Pine forest, and Pinyon Pine/juniper forest.
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  • Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) <br />
Virunga Volcanoes - Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda <br />
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Tetero, a young juvenile from the Beetsme Group knuckle-walks along a large fallen tree in Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda. On the ground, gorillas walk on all fours, resting on the knuckles of the hands rather than on the bottoms or palms of the hands.
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  • Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) <br />
Virunga Volcanoes - Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda <br />
Humura from the Susa Group sits quietly atop a fallen tree and surveys the group of tourists that are snapping nonstop in Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda.
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