• 1997
Skeleton Coast Safari
  • 1997

Skeleton Coast Safari

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 27, 1997

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Namibia

Production companies : Skeleton Coast Films

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jun 27, 1997

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : Namibia

Production companies : Skeleton Coast Films

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Skeleton Coast Safari (1997) Des Bartlett in Skeleton Coast Safari (1997) Skeleton Coast Safari (1997) Skeleton Coast Safari (1997)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jun 27, 1997
Coast of Loneliness
The first programme looks at the Coast of Loneliness, a desert-bordered coastal area providing a home to a rich diversity of wildlife, including springbok, seals, rats and big cats.
Episode 2 • Jul 04, 1997
Secrets of the Plains
The second programme in the five-part series is about the desert along West Africa's Skeleton Coast. The desert has its first rain for two years and within a few hours, it bursts into life with new vegetation, insects, birds and lizards taking advantage of the moisture.
Episode 3 • Jul 18, 1997
The Sea of Sand
The wind brings both food and moisture to the desert's residents, ranging from vegetation lizards to the nara plant, a relative of the cucumber, that forms the basic diet for many creatures of the dunes.
Episode 4 • Jul 25, 1997
Dwarfed by the Desert
For more than a decade, Des and Jen Bartlett filmed a small population of elephants. During the driest months, the herd relies on water that collects beneath Namibia's Hoanib and Hoarusib River beds, and sometimes the animals have to travel for days in order to find sufficient food.
Episode 5 • Aug 01, 1997
Baboons: Against the Odds
Two researchers live with a tribe of baboons for four years on the parched bed of the Kuiseb River, where temperatures reach 45°C and there is no rainfall for 116 days.
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