{"id":219541,"date":"2025-12-31T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219541\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:10:12","slug":"watch-agonising-bbc-footage-of-baby-ostriches-making-a-perilous-journey-for-water-and-survival-in-the-soaring-heat-of-the-kalahari-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219541\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch agonising BBC footage of baby ostriches making a perilous journey for water and survival in the soaring heat of the Kalahari Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While adult ostriches, such as leopards and meerkats, can acquire all water they need to survive from their food, the baby ostriches in this gripping BBC Earth video need water.<\/p>\n<p>If the chicks don&#8217;t drink in the next 24 hours, the will certainly die. However, finding water in the vast Kalahari Desert isn&#8217;t easy.<\/p>\n<p>They set out onto the Etosha Salt Pan, a vast, dry salt basin. It\u2019s a deadly journey, and the father tries to shade the chicks from the midday sun with his wings.<\/p>\n<p>Will the chicks survive the 40\u00b0C heat?<\/p>\n<p>Watch baby ostriches fight for survival<\/p>\n<p>This footage is taken from the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/p010jc6p\/africa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main image: BBC Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While adult ostriches, such as leopards and meerkats, can acquire all water they need to survive from their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-219541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}