Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Zimbabwe Wildlife Non Human Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine.

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Bald Eagle Montenegro Campaign Turkey 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

As noted in their entry the Handbook of the Birds of the World, they are unusual in their close association with palms (hence the name) and in building mud nests (in palms or human buildings). They are also found in patches of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and also north through Zambia, the Congo and Tanzania (just poking into Kenya).

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Mozambique Zambia Zimbabwe Namibia 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

How many copies of Sasol does one human need? In particular the GPS function didn’t seem to work in Botswana and Zimbabwe (I am, I have to confess, guessing there was a GPS function as it seemed to work in South Africa in areas with no signal. With one exception the cisticolas I recorded were picked out by call or a human guide.

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Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 153