Lungless and happy about it
It is rather amazing that a terrestrial animal as big as this Ringtail salamander (Bolitoglossa robusta) from Costa Rica can spend its entire life without taking a single breath and instead relies...
View ArticleMozambique Diary: Coconut crabs of Vamizi
The coconut crab (Birgus latro), the coolest, most awesome, most beautiful inhabitant of the Vamizi Island. These animals have adapted to live around humans and the conservation group on the island...
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In June 2006 I was in Ghana with a group of conservation biologists to gather data and arguments for the creation of a new national park around the spectacular and highly threatened Atewa Forest...
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The dilapidated remnants of Chironde, an old hunting camp near the town of Inhamitanga in Mozambique, don’t make for a particularly enticing location for visitors and most of the year the camp sits...
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