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This photo is from Photo Gallery: Floods
Okavango Delta
Photograph by Bobby Haas
The seasonal flooding of Botswana's inland Okavango Delta can cover more than 10,000 square miles (26,000 square kilometers). The annual influx sustains a rich diversity of life, including herds of lechwe, or marsh antelope, who have adapted splayed hooves to help them walk on the muddy terrain created by the deluge.