@Scibraai Monday Menu: of tennis players’ BMT and frogs

This week’s @Scibraai Monday Menu features two research papers – one from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (featuring mental toughness in tennis players) and another from North-West University and the Endangered Wildlife Trust staffers (on what South Africans think about frogs). Being a mentally tough tennis player Psychologists of the University of KwaZulu-Natal have delved into…

Scibraai Monday Menu #3: Nguni cattle, jackal and emergency numbers

This week’s look at a few new South African research papers takes into account how local men think about themselves when they have breast cancer, the genetics of Nguni cattle, a black-backed jackal that roamed 150km wide and calls to emergency numbers. Having breast cancer does little to a man’s masculinity South African male…

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@Scibraai Monday Menu: of tennis players’ BMT and frogs

Scibraai Monday Menu #3: Nguni cattle, jackal and emergency numbers