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Smoking is (good) for the birds

10,000 Birds

The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. We need to find out what birds living near tobacco farms do, or even better, what those living near wild tobacco do. Insects ruled. We spent most of the rest of the semester dealing with grasshoppers.

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

Dr Smith was later in charge of medical services in the Crimea but had a feud with Florence Nightingale and was severely criticized for mismanagement, yet despite this he was knighted in 1859. Thomas Ayres arrived in 1850 and farmed in Cowies Hill near Durban, as well as collecting birds for additional income. Image by Adam Riley.