What has become of chicks of Southern Ground Hornbills harvested from the Kruger National Park?Kemp, AlanKemp, MegTurner, Ann
What a lot of people think of as a “ground fowl” or galliform way of life is more of a way of life somewhat typical of the Phasanidae- chickens, pheasants and their familiar kin. Megapodes, curassows, guans, grouse and other Galliformes do not necessarily do things in the “typica...
Reasonable.Entry to the ground-floor space is free,although all the theatre performances are ticketed.Prices for shows vary,with the average around £8 for adults and £6 for children.Café Voices,the centre's monthly storytelling night,is £5. Opening hours 10 a.m. -6 p.m.jye.ai ...
That’s the team and the background, and I’ve already given you the punchlines for the paper; these are the primitive and the derived states of the paper. The rest of this post is about what happened behind the scenes. No huge drama or anything, but hard, cautious work and persevera...
The scales of pangolins and turtle blood, for example, are ground into a powder and used for their claimed healing powers. Buffalo horns, fresh snake blood, and tiger male parts are believed to have aphrodisiac and virility potency. Of course, neither of these has any scientific backing. ...
Southern Ground Hornbills are long lived and slow breeders with the monogamous pair breeding every second year. Although two eggs are laid by the female in their cavity nests, typically only a single chick is reared to adulthood. Being cooperative breeders, the dominant adult male will...
When searching for termites, sloth bears exhibit a unique foraging behavior. They will use their claws to break open termite mounds, sometimes digging several feet into the ground. Once they reach the insects, they close their nostrils to prevent dust inhalation and use their lips to suck up ...
“There is no longer any hope of finding Michael Rockefeller alive.” The Rockefellers clung to the idea that he might have made it to shore, and a Dutch official in New Guinea supported that hope: “If Michael reached shore there is a good chance of survival,” he said. “The natives...
It is built on swampy ground that is subjected to regular flooding by the river, requiring buildings to be constructed on piles to keep them off the ground. Pontianak name refers to a story about ghosts that people in West Kalimantan refer to as Pontianak (a ferocious female ghost in Malay...