Dog Days Lion Nights

Filming expeditions in northern Botswana for the BBC “Planet Earth” series. By Ben Osborne

  Overview

Award-winning wildlife photographer Ben Osborne takes you “behind-the-scenes” on two filming expeditions to northern Botswana with the BBC natural history series "Planet Earth".

We start in the Okavango Delta where the team spent weeks on the trail of one of Africa’s rarest large predators, the African Hunting Dog. As well as photographing the dogs, Ben joined the camera crews as they filmed many other wildlife sequences, an experience which provided some wonderful opportunities for wildlife photography in the spectacular landscapes of this unique environment.


The second expedition was to Savuti, a dry savannah region where life gets extremely tough in the October dry season. Many animals move out at this time of year but the elephants stay. So does a pride of 30 lions. Elephants are dominant to the lions in the daytime but things change after dark when a lion pride of this size becomes a serious threat to the elephants. The crew joined this feline menace day and night for a month - with dramatic, and occasionally unpredictable, consequences.


Audio-visual sequences, featuring music by the Soweto String Quartet, celebrate the stunning wildlife and landscapes of the Okavango Delta and provide a close-up view of the animals which struggle to survive in the parched landscape of Savuti.

 

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