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This World Hippo Day, we are celebrating these giant pachyderms by sharing a clip from Chapter 1 of Dereck and Beverly's film, 'Okavango River of Dreams'.

Watch the film here: https://www.wildlifefilms.co/okavango...

'We start our story with a lioness, hunting the fringes of the deep upper Okavango waters. Her encounter with a buffalo doesn’t go the way she anticipated, and she is left for dead. However, she has more resilience than one thinks, but her story doesn’t end there. Fekeetsa is the main character of the first Chapter (Paradise) as she struggles to overcome her challenges.

The other personalities we find, in this opening, include the river itself. Rainwater in the highlands takes 6 months to find its way to the Okavango, and that means it gets to the biggest concentration of wildlife, in the region, at exactly the right time. Mid-winter, in the dry season.

It is home to some of the most precious and largest elephant concentrations on the planet. Leopards, swimming baboons, day old African jacana chicks all make up the tapestry of this paradise. We go underwater with crocodiles, and massive migrations of barbel fish. We float on, passed male lions and Fekeetsa, swirling Carmine bee-eaters and down to the islands, as the reed beds burn spectacularly, tumbling seeds down to flourish in the land of Chapter 2.'

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