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As they depart a small desert oasis, two springbok merge together in the distorting Kalahari heat that throws mirages onto the distant background. NamibiaA dejected black-backed jackal wanders the Kalahari while a mirage rises above the intense desert heat. Namibia.Ostrich sunrise in the Kalahari, Namibia.An ostrich crosses the desert towards a distant mirage, perhaps in search of water. Namibia.An ostrich baby terrifies small bugs while on the hunt in Etosha, Namibia.Ack, thbbft! An ostrich in Namibia.Protecting her eggs in Namibia. She shuffled around, threw dirt over the eggs, scanned for predators, then settled in for an uneasy sleep.Thousands of red-billed queleas take a bath in an oasis. Etosha, Namibia.Tens of thousands of red-billed queleas migrating across Namibia. These flocks can obscure the sun, coat every square inch of a tree, and when taking off, make a tremendous whoosh that scares away all other wildlife at a watering hole.Strawberry poison-dart frog. Not edible (in case you were wondering). Costa Rica.Strawberry poison-dart frog, sometimes called the blue jeans frog in this particular color morph that's seen near the Nicaragua-Costa Rican border.A frog floats on fresh figs that have fallen from a tree into the waters of a quiet oasis hidden deep in the Naukluft Mountains of the Namibian desert. The huge rafts of figs floating on the water made the oasis smell like a wonderful dessert, as if someone was baking a really good batch of cookies.

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