Mozambique Diary: Demons in the dust
Translucent and motionless, the Gregarious antlions (Hagenomyia tristis) are virtually invisible as they form large aggregations, often a few hundred strong, in the grassy understory of Mozambican...
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In June 2006 I was in Ghana with a group of conservation biologists to gather data and arguments for the creation of a new national park around the spectacular and highly threatened Atewa Forest...
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The dilapidated remnants of Chironde, an old hunting camp near the town of Inhamitanga in Mozambique, don’t make for a particularly enticing location for visitors and most of the year the camp sits...
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Crickets are some of the oldest and best studied singers of the animal world. Their ancestors were probably some of the first animals to break the silence of the dry land in the Permian and the...
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