Tourism Gaborone Botswana

1 Introduction Food, water, and shelter are critical resource requirements for the survival and fitness of animals (Rosario Carotenuto et al. 2020; Mapuru et al. 2021). Animals living in arid and semi-arid environments have developed physiological and behavioural mechanisms for these conditions, and a common behavioural adaptation by fossorial animals is to shelter in below-ground excavations, known as burrows (Kinlaw 1999; Rosario Carotenuto et al. 2020).