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The mouth of the Arnhem Caves can fit some 60 busses and is home to 6 different types of bats amongst other thing that l...
08/04/2024

The mouth of the Arnhem Caves can fit some 60 busses and is home to 6 different types of bats amongst other thing that live in the deep and dark places of this world^^ Pack a picnic basket, a watermelon and clothing you dont care to get dirty and have a fun day out with your friends and family 100km from Windhoek :) The guided hike is about 2h 30min.

There is just something special about Etosha's waterholes when they're jam packed :)
07/04/2024

There is just something special about Etosha's waterholes when they're jam packed :)

Namibia has just the right sort of places for when you just want to get away from it all you know? 😉 For those who dont ...
04/04/2024

Namibia has just the right sort of places for when you just want to get away from it all you know? 😉 For those who dont understand Afrikaans, moer toe in this context would mean any which way you go, your in the middle of nowhere. Just gotta love Damaraland 😁

You'd never think that Aardwolfs have 5 toes in the front yet only 4 toes on the back 😅
02/04/2024

You'd never think that Aardwolfs have 5 toes in the front yet only 4 toes on the back 😅

How I wish these Lilac-breasted Rollers were as common as they are in Etosha throught the rest of the country :)
30/03/2024

How I wish these Lilac-breasted Rollers were as common as they are in Etosha throught the rest of the country :)

In 1484, Portuguese navigator and explorer Diogo Cão was ordered by King John II of Portugal to advance south into undis...
29/03/2024

In 1484, Portuguese navigator and explorer Diogo Cão was ordered by King John II of Portugal to advance south into undiscovered regions along the west coast of Africa, as part of the search for a sea route to India and the Spice Islands. While doing so, he was to choose some particularly salient points and claim them for Portugal by erecting stone crosses called padrões. During his first voyage, thought to have taken place in 1482, he reached a place he called Monte Negro, now called Cabo de Santa Maria, roughly 150 km southwest of today's Benguela, Angola. During his second voyage, in 1484–1486, Cão reached Cape Cross in January 1486, being the first European to visit this area. He is known to have erected two padrões in the areas beyond his first voyage, one in Monte Negro, and the second at Cape Cross. The current name of the place is derived from this padrão. What can today be found at Cape Cross are two replicas of that first cross.

Palmato geckos are semi see through 😉 Enjoy a trip to Sandwich and perhaps you might get to see one^^
28/03/2024

Palmato geckos are semi see through 😉 Enjoy a trip to Sandwich and perhaps you might get to see one^^

Home sweet home :) My little hillside outside Windhoek
16/03/2024

Home sweet home :) My little hillside outside Windhoek

Universal antidote for the Elapidae family of snakes which includes cobras, kraits and mambas 😁A article by Catherine Du...
09/03/2024

Universal antidote for the Elapidae family of snakes which includes cobras, kraits and mambas 😁

A article by Catherine Duncan for the Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists have created a treatment that targets a toxin produced by cobras, mambas and kraits, laying the foundation for a future universal antivenom against snake bites, according to new research. treatment must be precise—though it’s not always known which species has bitten a person. And, even if administered accurately, the animal proteins in the drugs have the potential to cause fatal anaphylaxis. “These animals get exposed to various bacteria and viruses during their lifetime,” says Kartik Sunagar, head of the evolutionary venomics lab at the Indian Institute of Science and a lead author of the paper, in a statement. “As a result, antivenoms also include antibodies against microorganisms, which are therapeutically redundant. Research has shown that less than 10 percent of a vial of antivenom actually contains antibodies that are targeted toward snake venom toxins.” Sunagar’s team sought to sidestep these risks by targeting the core component of a major toxin in Elapidae snakes’ venom: long-chain three-finger alpha-neurotoxins. The molecules in this neurotoxin “look like a small hand with three fingers,” per Science News, and they cause paralysis by shutting down a protein critical for movement, Andreas H. Laustsen-Kiel, a toxicologist at the Technical University of Denmark who was not involved in the study, tells the publication. Using a screening method previously used on antibodies for fighting HIV and Covid-19, researchers pored through at least 60 billion artificial human antibodies to pinpoint which grasped onto the three-finger alpha-neurotoxin the tightest. The antibodies that are best able to hold on can most effectively neutralize its toxicity. Researchers identified about a dozen of their top candidates, but in tests on human cells, one stood out. The teams then tested this antibody on animal models. Groups of five mice were given a life-threatening dose of the toxin from the venom of a krait, mixed with the antibody. Mice that weren’t given the antibody died within four hours, but all of the treated mice survived. Even when the antibody was delayed for 20 minutes after envenomation, the mice lived. So was the case for the venoms of monocled cobras and black mambas. The antibody, however, did not save mice from king cobra venom. “If you had asked me six years ago, I would have said that you’d be out of your mind to think that you can neutralize a snake venom by targeting just one toxin,” says Sunagar to Science. The antibody’s efficacy on the potent venom from a black mamba “really speaks to the fact that it is a good antibody,” Laustsen-Kiel adds to the publication. Because the antibody is produced in a lab from cell lines derived from humans, it avoids harmful side-effects connected to animal antibodies. “This solves two problems at the same time,” says Sunagar in the statement. “First, it is an entirely human antibody and hence, side-effects, including fatal anaphylaxis, occasionally observed in patients treated with conventional antivenom, can be prevented. Secondly, this would mean that animals need not be harmed in future to produce this life-saving antidote.” Next, the researchers hope to extend their antibody-production strategy to other venom toxins. Their team believes that these antibodies can eventually be combined to create a concoction that shuts down the toxins of every venomous snake looming globally. “You’d no longer have to stock hundreds of antivenoms,” Jardine says to Science. “You could stock a single universal one.”

Kindly please report the story post that the hacker at Road Trip Namibia shared, thanks!
23/02/2024

Kindly please report the story post that the hacker at Road Trip Namibia shared, thanks!

ATTENTION! Any post you see from here onward from Road Trip Namibia is made by the hacker. I've been removed as a admin ...
20/02/2024

ATTENTION! Any post you see from here onward from Road Trip Namibia is made by the hacker. I've been removed as a admin so i cant post on there anymore. Page admins, please block Road Trip Namibia to not be able to post on your pages anymore. Thank you

19/02/2024

There is so much going on just under the surface where we cannot see 😅 Full video

There is always a lookout on guard to warn the rest 😉
18/02/2024

There is always a lookout on guard to warn the rest 😉

what a cutie

18/02/2024

Sneaky little devil! - The full video 🙂

18/02/2024

The full video on the brown hyena 🙂

17/02/2024

The full video on Dragon's Breath Cave 😉

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