【探索世界】浩瀚沙漠(2/30)
作者:互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2012-10-06 08:00
Hints: moisture dune the Namib bounty termite lizard
For eighty million years,cold,dry winds have swept in from the ocean,denying the land moisture and piling enormous sand dunes against the shore. Beautiful but impossibly dry,in a good year,the Namib gets just five centimeters of rain,in a bad year,it rains only sand.But buried within the dunes,there is treasure. Fragments of dead animals and plants swallowed long ago by the sand are swept to the surface,offering a crucial lifeline. Beetles, many different species have found ways to harvest this bounty. Along with termites and lizards, they're the foundations for a delicate chain of life in the Namib.