Animals Are Beautiful People
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Sometimes he's sorry he got married,
because she's always cleaning house.

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He wants a girlfriend,
and that's his way of advertising.

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He knows if there's a lady tapping beetle
within half a mile...

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...she'll hear him and answer back.
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So all day and all night,
he taps and listens, taps and listens...

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...because tapping beetles
are scarce here...

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...and he has a long
and lonely quest ahead of him.

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The backfiring beetle doesn't use his rear
end for tapping. He uses it to defend himself.

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His ammunition is a stinging acid, and he
always hits his enemy right in the eye.

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These are some of the animals
who are at home in the Pre-Namib.

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They've accepted the hardships
of the changing planet and seem to enjoy...

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...living in this arid land where the rain
sometimes stays away for years.

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In the southern part of the Pre-Namib,
billions of seeds...

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...lie waiting for years in the dust
of the desert floor.

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When the rain comes at last,
a miraculous transformation happens.

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The desert covers itself in a wall-to-wall
carpet, and an incredible variety...

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...of flowers celebrate the coming
of the life-giving moisture.


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