For the animal and plant world that lives there, the Kalahari is a region of southern Africa as awe-inspiring as it is ruthless. Here, the rains and resources are so scarce and the dry seasons so long that drinking, feeding, protecting, reproducing are a daily challenge. And yet hundreds of species have collected it every day for millennia. For a long time we thought that only the law of the strongest allowed us to survive here. But it's a whole different strategy: cooperation. To overcome so much adversity, species have learned to unite and work together, between members of the same clan, but also between different species, between tiny and powerful, between plant and animal. Against all odds, sharing your burrow with others, looking for food together, teaming up to hunt, coming together to protect your young, dividing up the work to save yourself and even sometimes sacrificing yourself for your clan is much better than l 'individualism.
