Critter News

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey. Kotze said Jordaan had apparently doing "stem cell research" to help people walk again after a friend of his had been paralysed in an accident. From news24.com. She had been captured from the wild.

South Africa 100

South Africa Experience Experiments Primates 100

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MARCH 8, 2011

Growing up within an hour of one of the world’s premier shorebird destinations -- West Coast National Park in South Africa -- helped for sure. But research has shown that some plovers even use the super-sensitive soles of their feet to detect movement beneath the substrate.

Florida 200

Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 200

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AUGUST 6, 2012

There are over 5,000 species of frogs in existence (5,858 at the time the book was written, the exact number changes as research dictates re-arrangements of taxonomy and new species are discovered). There’s the Goliath frog from South Africa—up to one foot in length and over 6 pounds in weight.

Reptiles 190

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 190

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Ken also had a very dry sense of humour … and we definitively enjoyed his wry take on life… Despite being only in his twenties [in 2008], Ken seemed to have been birding for at least forty years, so good were his birding skills.”.

Rwanda 216

Rwanda Primates Wildlife Gorillas 216

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APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! During each trip we would discuss a destination for the following year.

Ghana 199

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 199

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APRIL 7, 2015

The reality is that it’s if pretty difficult to see most penguin species, excepting the wonderfully accessible African Penguins at Boulders Beach outside Cape Town, South Africa and the Galapagos Penguins, ironically one of the rarest and most commonly seen species.

Penguins 209

Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 209

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

Contributions this month have come from; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Mexico, Serbia, South Africa, UK, Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). South Africa. International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE). South Africa.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154