            National Geographic Photo of the Day: San Bushmen

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Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, South Africa, 1995 Photograph by Chris
Johns The seemingly empty landscape of the Kalahari Desert is full of
clues to the whereabouts of potential prey for these San Bushmen
hunters. Bushmen can read the desert like a book, studying droppings,
tree markings, and hoof prints to determine an animal&#039s species,
gender, and age. They can estimate when an animal has passed through a
certain area by the time it takes termites to rebuild a nest that's
been trampled, or a blade of grass to spring back upright, or a spider
to repair its cobweb.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published
in, "A Place for Parks in the New South Africa," July 1996, National
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