10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. This lake is close to the cave. My photo of the cave was bad, sorry.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. As I’ve noted elsewhere, it was really Darwin’s experiences on the Falklands that first congealed many of his evolutionary insights. My research in the Congo supports this idea. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
It is quite a sight to experience hundreds of Abdim’s Stork dropping out of the skies from seemingly thin air, to gorge on burnt or fleeing insects and rodents. It appears in southern Africa only during the Austral summer months, usually in large flocks that seek out locust and flying termite eruptions.
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