The Okavango Delta explained

Learn about the #Geography and Wildlife of the #Okavango Delta in #Botswana! The Okavango River makes its way from the Angolan Highlands into the Kalahari Desert but upon entering Botswana, the ground levels so drastically, the river starts spreading far beyond its original banks. This flooding creates one of the most fascinating wetland regions in the world, with seasonal floodings covering thousands of square kilometers. The area is protected as a UNESCO world heritage site but it is not just important to us Humans. Over a million large mammals live around the delta, migrating from the surrounding savannah when the fresh waters are arriving every autumn. If you want to learn more about the ecosystems and geographical features of this planet, be sure to subscribe and leave a like. Cheers.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 The Geography of the Okavango Delta
2:14 The Seasons
4:20 Wildlife at the Okavango Delta
Music:
Climbing - Reed Mathis
Swans in Flight - Asher Fulero
Light Awash - Kevin MacLeod
Music Credits:
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[@colinbrown2891]

I lived in Maun on the edge of the Okavango Delta for four years. I loved how the narrator correctly pronounced all the place names.

[@LechaMolefi]

❤ Maun is a nice place,I enjoy passing through there

[@handyvickers]

But mispronounced many other things... I think it's a computer voice!

[@TheoEvian]

@@handyvickers It just sounds like a german

[@charvaka9526]

No, it's a real voice. Yes, he mispronounced a word or two: CAnils, instead of caNALS. @@handyvickers

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

Nile crocodiles are my favourite mammals

[@reginalddithapo7922]

They’re pre-historic sub-aquatic reptile, and it’s cold blooded whilst mammals are warm blooded like you and me. With love from Africa Botswana 🇧🇼

[@gaydvorak7053]

​@@reginalddithapo79224:25 He said crocodiles are mammals

[@chrisgroenewald9158]

I cringed when he said crocodiles are mammals

[@zacktimmons2886]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[@bert-qu3iq]

In Florida alligators are farmed for their milk.

[@rerolley]

We visited the Delta in August and this is the best description of the system I have seen so far. Thanks much for putting this together.

[@maureenfraser-duffield1338]

Utterly brilliant thank you- I’ve searched for ages for an accessible explanation of the Okavango delta and the seasonal flooding and this has been such a great help . So clear and accessible without being patronising- thanks again 🙏

[@johnh539]

I agree but one aspect he did not mention is that the reason the water does not disappear underground is that at about a meter down it hits an unbroken waterproof mineral lair, so it sits like a shallow water filled dish in the Kalahari.

[@debbiemilleralaska]

Great educational video! Only suggestion is to make one more chapter on why the delta originally formed from plate tectonic shift? River used to reach the Indian Ocean. An inland delta is pretty unique!

[@chrishoo2]

Large mammals- shows a crocodile. The big five- shows an Indian elephant?

[@nrm224]

This is terrific. I feel like I’m fairly well-informed on geography but I have never heard of this. I very much enjoyed it.

[@metametodo]

Same here. It's impressive to find something so interesting, that I've never heard anything about. This is very nice.

[@rooftile883]

The Kalahari is a semi-desert, not because of an absence of rain or vegetation but because of the sandy nature of the soil. All rainwater sinks in immediately, so there is no running water (in rivers) or standing water (in lakes or dams). In some places the vegetation is very lush and doesn't represent a desert.

[@ronnievorster6361]

Lots of jnderground water

[@rooftile883]

@@ronnievorster6361 Yep, but very deep and because of the sand all boreholes have to be lined all the way.

[@nunyabiznes33]

I wonder what happens when when you remove the first few feet of sand, dump clay, and the fill it back.

[@rooftile883]

@@nunyabiznes33 The pans are basically covered with a layer of clay (silt washed down from the dunes over the years.) The clay layer acts like waterproofing and can hold a few inches of water after rains for quite a number of days.

[@egay86292]

when did crocs become mammals? what did i miss?

[@christinae30]

They think its their right to define themselves what they are, so now they decided they are mammals...🤔

[@dbertovi]

My whole life was heavily influenced by Kalahari desert and Okavango Delta and stories about them! Magical, powerful, beautiful, raw.

[@j.w.1079]

I know this place from an old worn down VHS tape of The Living Desert I watched dozens of times as a kid in the 80s. Time for a rewatch...

[@carolfranklin758]

Wonderful, wonderful information about a very little known and little explained but fascinating area. Thank you!!!!

[@MARGATEorcMAULER]

Well done,lots of great info. for a short video. Had not seen anything on this amazing place in years.

[@keysn9070]

Very interesting! Do other similiar delta's exist on earth?

[@jacquespansegrouw5513]

Yes Lake Eyrie in Australia is similar. Search for endorheic basins.

[@danielvega1119]

Niger Delta in Mali

[@saxon6]

For years i have watched documentaries on the Kalahari and haven't had its location right. Excellent video

[@Zestieee]

This is absolutely astonishing, I had no idea this existed! Earth is so freakin amazing.

[@magsbro]

I like the slightly longer videos

[@MasterKiy]

Agreed. While the 3 minute videos are fun there's just so much more flexibility and info you can provide with these longer videos.

[@narainsinha]

I visited the Okavango delta in October 2020,needless to say it is paradise on earth

[@bradonyoutube8638]

Going next October. Can't wait

[@glitterytrinket6246]

Great show

[@Aeyekay0]

Well made video, very informative and straight to the point

[@kmcd3020]

Except when he said the file crocodile was a mammal 😂

[@GabGotti3]

I have been wanting to know this forever. Because deltas are usually near the ocean.

[@astrodane7326]

Mother nature never Ceases to amaze me. The world is truly beautiful. 😄

[@chhoc]

what a cool system

[@phindabuthelezi6247]

Nile crocodile a mammal. Wow

[@joedellinger9437]

How long has it been there? Isn’t it slowly getting saltier?

[@narainsinha]

Visited Okavango in October 2020.

[@99BHUVNESHJAIN]

My dream is to visit there one day 🙏🏽

[@AllMadeVlogs]

There is an area in okavanko...the pan handle...it's one of my life's wish to visit there and see the tiger fish hunting the catfish

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

The water cycle really does a lot of heavy lifting here!

[@shannonalaminski2619]

Very informative video. Today I learned that crocodiles are mammals.

[@christinae30]

Yes, they felt left out, and democrativally voted for a change.

[@TeeColibri]

4:30 didn’t know the Nile Crocodile was a large mammal. See this is why I watch educational YT. I just learned something.

[@christinae30]

Interesting that it doesn't end in the sea like most rivers!

[@kennethferland5579]

I'm curious why their apears to be no buildup of salt as occours in other bodies of water which evaporate without reaching the sea.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

That's an Asian elephant in the picture at 5:05!

[@peterwhyte-zl1kv]

Why is the water not salty?

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Just when you think you've got a handle on how rivers behave, up pops The Okavango Delta! Amazing place, with I'm betting animals that l live there, are only found there. Looks a bit like Patagonia, without the huge snakes, and weird oversized guinea pigs!

[@persimmontea6383]

I wonder why it hasn't become a salt desert???

[@XGD5layer]

Salt deserts only form if the water cannot drain into the ground

[@persimmontea6383]

@@XGD5layer maybe ... but there will be lots of surface evaporation and also how long has this been going on??? In Utah the salt flats are feet thick of solid salt. Does the water not only soak into the ground but also drain away to someplace lower?

[@autolikus2]

Because river water is not salty

[@persimmontea6383]

@@autolikus2The great salt flats in the US are fed by non-salty water from mountain snow melt. But over years of evaporation the minerals left behind build up as salt flats and the Great Salt Lake.

[@Nithish0096]

In India we can see all five big animals such as in Africa are the Indian rhino the Indian leopard the Indian elephant the Bengal tiger the Asiatic water buffalo. Along the flood plains of Brahmaputra and the Shivalik range some of the national parks are Manas And Kaziranga tiger reserve in Assam dudhwa tiger reserve in Uttar Pradesh Valmiki tiger reserve in Bihar. India is the only country to have more number of big cats such as the Indian Bengal tiger, the Indian leopard, the Indian snow leopard, the Indian clouded leopard, the Asiatic lion, the African cheetah. It is the only country in the world to see this much cats in wild.❤

[@raphlvlogs271]

the most unusual thing about this delta is that its inland instead of coastal

[@willytfiveo7391]

This is the place they were talking about when you see a mirage in the desert

[@timthomson5674]

HI! I love this kind of content. It is very interesting and neatly presented. But please, pretty please, fix that when you say "large mammals like Nile Crocodiles", It takes out credibility. Thanks

[@pholomotshidisi845]

The city of Seronga got me 😂

[@polka23dot70]

4:27 Crocodiles are large mammals.

[@RoryDouglas-bc2cg]

In your picture of the big five you included an Indian Elephant rather than an African elephant!

[@aldrinmilespartosa1578]

It's pretty the same case with the nile

[@williamogilvie6909]

So why doesn't the delta get salty, like the Great Salt Lake 8n Utah?

[@lharsay]

The most dowstream parts get too salty for plants.

[@lineinthesand663]

Not once do you mention the basement rift faulting, a southwestern extension of the East African Rift, the principle reason for the delta.

[@mooredelira]

at 4:29 you say large mammals but show a crocodile, which is a reptile, not a mammal

[@ammonhurst3026]

Why aren't there salt deposits built up if it's essentially a endoheric basin?

[@mandandi]

Salt deposits are in the Malgadikgadi, over 200km east of the delta. There is a salt mine at Sua Pan.

[@lharsay]

He wasn't talking about this but at the highest extant of the delta it flows onto salt plains, the salt gets washed out from the more upstream parts.

[@migaelvanvelden1773]

You say African elephant then you show an Asian Elephant.. there is also no camels in the Kalahari so those pictures are also wrong

[@rocketronin]

I could agree more. He's using stock videos

[@EnkiPtah]

What’s the difference besides the size?

[@GreenPoint_one]

​@@EnkiPtahI think african elefants look cooler. Im not sure but I think african and asian elefants cant breed, not even in rare cases

[@GreenPoint_one]

So more difference than between dogs,wolfs or coyote or fox

[@firecracka94]

​@EnkiPtah many differences, however I only know of coloration, size, and tusk shape. I don't want to Google more examples because I feel like that is cheating. Now ask me about turtles and I'm your man

[@raphlvlogs271]

do rhinos get sea sick when transported hanging off air crafts

[@Anthonybwembwa]

The"African Elephant" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHfKZ4Ftgcppd5o is actually an Indian elephant. You had 1 job!!!

[@sujitguha1281]

Avoid tourist destination naney thanks

[@kayrius]

4:23 crocodiles are not "large mammals"

[@robinbinder8658]

4:25 ???? mammals ? crocodilians ????? what

[@uwetheiss970]

While overall a nice video, I must say that reptiles like crocodiles are not mammals. I even checked the translation cause english is not my native language. But no, they are not.

[@FactSpark]

Yeah I don't know how I blundered that one

[@uwetheiss970]

@@FactSpark Happens to everyone. And some of us are immortalized by a KZbin Video. Great job on the overwhelming rest of the video! Thank you for that.

[@handyvickers]

Both rhino's in that picture were white rhino's...

[@DzoxEighty9]

2:31 bro drew an imaginary Zambezi River. that's not it.

[@jacksamson5968]

You say large mammals and then immediately mention nile crocodiles. And you pronounce wildebeest as “wild beast.” You need to proofread and research way better

[@bobloblaw10001]

Quatsch

[@Mr-__-Sy]

all fun and games but why does Okavango never manages to get to an ocean or huge lake and not just the delta

[@sigisoltau6073]

Because it ends in the Kalahari Basin. It's this large depression where several rivers flow into, but not out.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

This place was frequently mentioned as one of Prince Harry's favorite places to visit in his recent book "Spare".

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Don't let the chinese any where near it.

[@bronwynsteck]

Why say African Elephants and show a picture of a Asian Elephant?

[@webbtz3591]

Prince Harry how are uou.

[@SupaReus]

That's not the source of the Zambezi River 😂😂

[@bball767]

What is?

[@SupaReus]

@@bball767 it's found in Northwestern province in Zambia!!

[@EnkiPtah]

@@SupaReus That’s what I noticed as well. The other two are correct, but not Zambezi’s. Or maybe he meant the fact that it is significantly fed with waters from that region.

[@SupaReus]

@@EnkiPtah not at all even the path he drew for the river was wrong if you look carefully at the northwestern tip of Zambia you can see the river line it's nowhere near that

[@EnkiPtah]

@@SupaReus Yes, I don’t know where he took that line from.

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[@enhncr]

Large mammals like crocodiles. And I will never watch your channel again

[@suppengluck5285]

4:35 "large mammals" talks about crocodiles. Frankly you dont know what you talk about