10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. Hunting, the bush meat trade, habitat loss, population increases, they all have a part to play in this story. My photo of the cave was bad, sorry.
Critter News
JUNE 28, 2010
A restaurant owner who put lion burgers on the menu in honor of the World Cup has felt a roar of anger from outraged animal rights activists. Cameron Selogie, owner of the Il Vinaio restaurant in Mesa, served burgers made with African lion this week as a nod to the tournament in South Africa. I feel I was misled by this."
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10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
People and organizations in Nepal, Zambia, and South Africa have sought to change cultural attitudes, having the most success with school children. Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves. They are also hunted.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” There’s the Goliath frog from South Africa—up to one foot in length and over 6 pounds in weight. All species of frogs and toads share the fact that they are amphibian creatures, they have two types of skin gland, four legs, and, well, they jump.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.
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