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The Atacama in Chile. This is the driest desert in the world.
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Some parts may not see rain for fifty years
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and with such a record you'd expect the place to be completely barren.
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These are South America's camels, guanacos.
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They're very good at conserving moisture
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but they nonetheless need a regular supply of water.
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They get it partly from cactus flowers
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but that explanation raises another question.
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How do the cacti survive without rain?
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Hot winds suck all the moisture from the surface of the land.
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Clearly there must be something else that takes the place of rain.
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The secret is a cold sea current that runs parallel to the land.
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The cold water cools the moist warm air above it
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and that produces banks of fog.
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At the same time wind blowing on to the shore sweeps the fog inland.
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Before long the cacti are dripping with dew.
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The fog is so regular
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that moisture loving lichens are able to grow on the cacti
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and they absorb liquid like a sponge.
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In the land of almost no rain
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these precious drops are life-savers for many different creatures.
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Further inland the air remains so warm that its moisture does not condense
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so this slender strip of desert is virtually the only part of the Atacama
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where life can exist.
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Without the fog, this land, too, would be empty.
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The guanacos make the most of the dew
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but it will not remain for long.
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In an hour or two the sun will have burnt it off
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and dry the surface of the cacti.
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And it's coming.
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When the summer monsoon blows in
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the giant saguaros, one of the biggest of all cacti,
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are ready to take full advantage of it.
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After a rainstorm the saguaro's long shallow root system sucks up the water
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and the pleats on its trunk enable it to expand rapidly.
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When full, a saguaro stem can store up to five tonnes of water
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and that's enough to see it through many months of drought.
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The trunks of these huge plants provide homes for the gila woodpecker.
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But birds are not the only animals to benefit from the presence of the cacti.
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During four weeks of the summer the saguaros bloom at night to attract visitors.
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The pollen and nectar with which these flowers are loaded attract long-nosed and long-tongued bats.
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The bats left Mexico a few days earlier to escape the heat of summer
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and are on their way north to the southern United States.
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To get there, they have to cross the Sonoran desert.
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But the desert is so big
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that for most of the year they would be unable to cross it.
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Now, with the saguaro in bloom, they can refuel on the way.
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So the saguaro's success in developing a way to store water
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is now crucial to most of the animals that live or even travel through this land.
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¾ÞÃÊ Primula
ÇËÇdzڶó Pimpinella
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º»¼¼Æ® Boneset
¿¡Å°³ª½Ã¾Æ Echinacea
¹éºÎÀÚ Aconite
¿¬Áö¹ú·¹ Coccus cacti
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