December 2007 newsletter

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Excerpt from December 2007 Earth-Touch newsletter:

Most-viewed stories in November

The most popular story with Earth-Touch users in November was Encounter with a big fish. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) attain lengths of 10 to 12m (33 to 39ft) and are the biggest fish on the planet, but are nevertheless difficult to find. They are plankton feeders and also eat small fish, sometimes while swimming vertically with their heads upwards.

Earth-Touch cameraman Graeme Duane found that keeping up with a migrating whale shark is hard work (his heavy breathing in the audio clip is testimony to it) – but his effort was well worth his while.

The other four top stories for November all came from the Okavango Delta, Botswana, where cameramen Brad Bestelink and Graham Springer have been filming.

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November 2007 newsletter

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Excerpt from November 2007 Earth-Touch newsletter:

Most-viewed stories in October
Earth-Touch users were drawn in particular to our whale coverage in October. We had wonderful close-up views of the southern right whales that visit South Africa’s Western Cape shore (Close encounter with a leviathan).

The story Swimming amongst seals puts users in the midst of these agile animals underwater, while in Life teems in the kelp forest, marvellous colours and shapes are revealed by the camera lights. The waterhole Earth-Touch has been filming in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana has attracted attention too: the spring rain meant not as many animals as before went down to drink, but the African bush put on its own show (Rain arrives at last).

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October 2007 Newsletter

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Excerpt from October 2007 Earth-Touch Newsletter:

We’ve been encouraged by the stats we are seeing relating to story popularity, because your interest seems fairly evenly spread across habitats and species. People appear to be enjoying our underwater coverage as much as our coverage of the Kalahari Desert, and our focus on creatures as small as ants as much as our coverage of elephants and lions.

Interestingly, of all species, sharks and meerkats appear to be the most popular so far.

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