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Leopard: How it got its Spots & other Secrets

Posted in Personalised Stamps, Poll, Stamps and Stories, tagged africa, African folklore, animals, dangerous, Fish River Canyon, genus panthera, gondwana, gondwana collection, gondwana collection namibia, how the leopard got his spots, hyena, jackal, last common ancestor, leopard, leopards favourite food, master of camouflage, master of camouflage and stealth, nature, Panthera pardus, rudyard kipling, travel, vacation, wild cats on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

According to African folklore, Leopard stopped sharing his meals and started to hide his kills in trees because Jackal and Hyena weren’t reciprocating his generosity and Leopardess became wary because Hare ate her cubs. One of the best remembered fables of the ages is, however, ‘How the Leopard Got His Spots’ in the ‘Just So [...]

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Fish River Canyon – Traces of a Death Struggle

Posted in gonwana park, Nature Conservation, Personalised Stamps, Poll, Stamps and Stories, Uncategorized, tagged africa, ai ais richtersfeld transfontier park, ai ais spa, ais ais, bethanien, etosha national park, Fish River Canyon, giant snake, gondwana, gondwana canyon park, gondwana collection namibia, Hiker’s Point, Keetmanshoop, nama karoo, nama ledend, nature, orange river, outdoors, second largest canyon on earth, sheep and goats, south africans, south america, southern namibia, super continent gondwana, travel, vacation, warambad, wilderness on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Once upon a time a giant snake dwelled in southern Namibia. Every so often it devoured the sheep and goats of the people and finally they decided to kill the snake. Armed with spears and accompanied by their dogs the men set out for the hunt. They encircled the snake, kept it at bay with [...]

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Fossilised Dunes – Ostrich Family Tree embedded in Sandstone

Posted in Namib Desert Lodge, News, Stamps and Stories, tagged africa, animal fossils, desert conditions, desert lodge, Drakensberg Mountains, fossilised dunes of the Namib, fossils, gondwana collection namibia, Gondwana Namib Park, namib, namib desert, namib desert lodge, ostrich, petrified sand dunes, sandstone layers, Solitaire, Tsondab sandstone on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

How does one know that the Namib is the oldest desert on earth? And that the ostrich originates in Namibia? The answer to both questions is the same and it is revealed by the fossilised dunes of the Namib, or rather, UNDERNEATH the Namib Desert. Largely covered by the sand sea of the ‘young’ Namib, [...]

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