Their ancestors are still found throughout Namibia, especially in the remote desert realm of the southern Namib.
Then the Benguela current forced the diamond-bearing sands ashore, forming the Namib desert.
South from Swakopmund across the gravel plains of the Namib Desert lies the dramatic Namib Naukluft Park.
Wolwedans is a group of lodges and camps that are part of the privately held NamibRand Nature Reserve in the southwest Namib Desert.
The shifting dunes and flat pans around Sossusvlei, more than 700 km south of the Skeleton Coast, lie in the Namib-Naukluft Park, beyond the park entrance at Sesriem.
Known as Kolmanskop, it sprouted as a prim German town in the Namib a century ago, when the country was a German colony known as German South West Africa.
But in recent decades their habitat has been reclassified as part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Africa's largest game reserve, bringing them into greater contact with humans.
One of Brinker's recent projects was inspired by the Namib Desert beetle, which survives by collecting the dew drops that roll down the channels on its extremely hydrophobic back.
Sandwiched between two of the world's most famous deserts - the Namib and the Kalahari - Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 370mm of rainfall on average each year.
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