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Tag Archives: Animal Demography Unit

Kobus Eloff: Jack-of-all-trades achieves success

Twenty years ago, when the Academy of Science of South Africa was established, Jacobus (Kobus) Nicolaas Eloff, then already in his mid-fifties, was invited, as Director of the National Botanical Gardens, to become a founding member of the Academy. However, once his CV had been reviewed, Eloff’s founding membership was declined on the grounds that…

January 24, 2018 in #LegendsofSouthAfricanScience.

Jou selfoon-foto’s kan wetenskaplikes help

Iewers in die Villiersdorp-omgewing is daar ‘n kleine naaldekoker wat soos ‘n superheld van kleur kan verander. As die son skyn, lyk die Spesbona angusta waterjuffer metaalblou soos ‘n VW Jetta van ouds. Sodra die temperature daal of ‘n wolk voor die son skuif, word dit so bruin soos donker sjokolade. Navorsers aan die Universiteit…

October 23, 2017 in #SciBraaiScienceSides, Biology & Evolution.

How to crowdsource an atlas for a snake, a tortoise and a lizard

There’s more than just a few snakes (and tortoises, lizards and crocodiles, for that matter) to be found among the 485 pages of the newly published Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. In fact, you will be able to use this full-colour atlas to look up the basics…

June 12, 2014 in Biology & Evolution.

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