10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
The history of Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa is a slightly unusual one. But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. And elephants are always overwhelming anyway. Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
There is a virtual flock of new and interesting bird science news all of the sudden, including the rediscovery of an extinct Bahama Nuthatch. One of those animals was the Giant Elephant Bird (including, but not limited to, Aepyornis maximus ). Science did not let us solidify that claim. Here’s a summary in Science.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 11, 2008
Do elephants born outside of captivity live longer? Elephants born in European zoos die at much younger ages than those bred in protected spaces, says a new study that's adding fuel to an already fractious debate over the welfare of the animals in captivity. Tags: zoos captivity elephants.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
These all had their own sub population of one or more species of large land bird, and these populations, in turn, give us the large lane birds we have today, except on Madagascar where the Elephant Bird went extinct (recently). Birds Elephant Bird evolution kiwi ratites Vicariance' Or maybe it was just the Kiwi that did this thing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
On this trip, this forced me to participate in a side trip to the nearby Tembe Elephant Park. The problem when not traveling alone is that your traveling partners may have other, often bizarre ideas about what else is worth looking for. Mostly just oversized grey mammals there, not too many birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2013
Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a Rock Pigeon perched on top of the elephants in the Hall of African Mammals, safely out of the elements and unexposed to Central Park’s hawks. Not in any espionage sense. The pigeon seemed very comfortable.
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