Not all carnivores are big and dangerous to work with. Some are just furry little things with big ears, wandering around looking for termites and other insects to eat! And when these guys are habituated to the point that Read more
Big birds with even bigger personalities
Updated: Jan 16, 2023
The Kori bustard, Ardeotis kori, and the Secretarybird, Sagittarius serpentarius, are the world’s heaviest flying bird and the world’s tallest raptor respectively. Although the two are in different families, both are mostly terrestrial Read more
Life & death on a roll: dung beetles and honey badgers
Updated: Nov 10, 2022
Sometimes we come upon curious things while working in the field. It happened a few weeks
ago when we noticed strange looking spherical shapes made of mud next to a hole in the middle of Read more
A noisy business: listening to rock hyraxes on Ongava
Wildlife produces a lot of sound. From insects to mammals, including fish and birds, auditory communication –signals emitted through the acoustic channel – is widespread in the animal kingdom. Bioacoustics studies aim to unravel the mystery of the sounds Read more
The only Empress moth in the bush…
All living organisms go through stages of growth and reproduction. The emperor moth does its growing and reproducing in remarkable ways. The egg hatches into a caterpillar in the summer in southern Africa, developing into a strong worm, hungry Read more