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Micetta

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:59 am

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DB has opened a new thread: "News from Kgalagadi TNP Guru". I will ask it there!

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Rieks

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:05 am

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Toddelelfe

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 11:15 pm

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Rieks wrote:

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Maybe there is somebody that will give us the correct dates and figures or maybe rectify where I am wrong.

Could this be helping you? Taken 2007 in MM

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Imberbe

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:44 am

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Thanks for that, it gives interesting info ... :thumbs_up:

Back to the quiz ... think it is still Ingrid to ask a question ... :wink:

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Micetta

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:46 am

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Thank you Toddelelfe; that gave a lot of information

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ingrid60

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:55 pm

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Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:35 pm
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Location: Innsbruck

Sorry,for beeing late! :redface:

(the giraffes confused me a bit)

Now,here is my question:

Can anyone tell me the originally names of the
thirteenth and fourteenth borehole?

:thumbs_up:

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bishop3006

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:43 am

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Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:45 pm
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Location: Pretoria

Ingrid, don't let these guys bamboozle you into thinking you HAVE to ask a question! This is an open quiz... :twisted:

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Boorgatspook

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 12:02 pm

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Thirteenth - Originally Grootskrij
Fourteenth - Originally Kleinskrij.

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ingrid60

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:53 pm

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Hi Bishop3006,

I'm an "old" newbie in the quizz thread!
Thank you for warning me!! :lol:

BGS!!
Well done!
You are the one!! :thumbs_up:

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Siobain

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:11 pm

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Well done Spook! :thumbs_up:

What special adaptations does the Gemsbok (Oryx) have that enables
it to survive comfortably in temperatures that would kill most animals
in the dry arid regions of the kalahari?

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ingrid60

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:45 pm

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Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:35 pm
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Location: Innsbruck

The most vulnerable part to such high body temperatures is the hypothalamus in the brain. The feature that protect the hypothalamus of the gemsbok,is a feature known as the “carotid rete”. It is a maze of blood vessels that work like the radiator (cooling device) of a vehicle. Warm blood from the heart to the brain passes through this network of vessels. Veins that carry blood already cooled through evaporation (in the nasal area) surround the network. Heat is exchanged in this process and thus lowering the temperature of the blood to the brain. It is a very efficient way to protect the body and simultaneously avoid too much sweating (which has the result of fluid loss).

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Siobain

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:03 pm

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The gemsbok (oryx) is supremely adapted to the desert environment and can go for months without water as it reabsorbs its own waste fluids and barely sweats. Its core temperature can rise far beyond that which would kill most animals, and to avoid literally boiling its brains, blood is first passed through the nostrils to cool it down.

Well done Ingrid... :clap:

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ingrid60

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:28 pm

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What's the name of the smallest falcon in Africa,often seen in KTP??

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bishop3006

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:19 pm

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Joined: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:45 pm
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Location: Pretoria

Would that be amur falcon? Don't know birds too well, especially raptors, I am afraid... :redface:

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Sky

Post subject: Re: The Kgalagadi Quiz - OQ

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:24 pm

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Joined: Sat May 31, 2008 8:24 pm
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Location: Bethal

Has to be the pygmy falcon

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