Tom Vezo / Least tern at nest with newly hatched chicks {Sternula antillarum} Long Island, New York, USA

Christophe Courteau / Plains zebra (Equus burchelli) drinking in a dust storm, Boteti River, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.

Francois Savigny / Suricate (meerkat) young - a few weeks old, Kalahari Gemsbok South Africa

Jen Guyton / Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) barely alive, with Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) quills through his abdomen. Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Wim van den Heever / Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) hunting Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) Kgalagadi, South Africa

Theo Allofs / African Lion (Panthera leo) female named Sirga running, Kalahari, Botswana

Theo Allofs / African Lion (Panthera leo) female named Sirga running, Kalahari, Botswana

Theo Allofs / Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) parents and young basking, Makgadikgadi Pan, Kalahari, Botswana

Neil Aldridge / Okavango robbers (Rhabdalestes maunensis) fish swimming up the temporary Selinda Spillway, northern Botswana. This shallow river cuts across the Kalahari Desert and joins the Okavango River system wit...

Juan Carlos Munoz / Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) silhouetted at dawn, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Male African lion (Panthera leo) at night, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.

Laurent Geslin / Two Striped ground squirrels {Xerus erythropus} Kalahari Gemsbok NP, Namibia. Kgalagadi

Laurent Geslin / San bushmen child portrait, Kalahari desert, Namibia 2005