Pia and Wild Nature – The Miraculous Creatures of the Namib Desert

Pia has traveled to the Namib Desert. Far away from civilization, she visits the Gobabeb Desert Research Station and learns amazing things about the miraculous creatures of the Namib Desert. First, Pia meets a dune shark. Contrary to its dangerous-sounding name, it is a very cute little animal. It spends most of the day hidden in the sand dunes, where it swims under the sand. With the young researcher Ndelimona, Pia can get a close-up look at the amazing desert animal. After that, Pia goes in search of a wondrous desert plant. The Welwitschia consists of only one pair of leaves, it can survive with a few drops of water a year in the middle of the desert and lives to be over 1,000 years old! But not only Pia finds this persistent plant interesting – a desert chameleon also appears on top of the Welwitschia. While searching for nocturnal animals, Pia discovers that also at night, there is a lot going on in the Namib Desert. She encounters an eight-eyed desert spider, a luminous web-footed gecko and finally hears the laughing call of a barking gecko.