Swimming Lions

Scientists are on the tail of one of nature's best kept secrets. Deep within Africa's untamed wilderness lions are doing the last thing we would've ever expected. They're taking to the water. Dry savannah dominates much of Southern Africa, but sprawling over the northern reaches of Botswana the terrain is startlingly different. There, in the midst of the Kalahari Desert is a surprising world of water where life flourishes.

Every year around 11 billion cubic meters of water pour into the Okavango, most of which arrives as a huge flood in the middle of winter. The waters that flood the Okavango start out as rain falling on the mountains of Angola to the north of Botswana. The water pours into to the vast Okavango River which bursts its banks as it ...

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