Meet The Bird That Lies To Other Animals. Hint: It Uses False Alarms To Steal Food

This bird lies for a living. Here’s what biological researchers have gleaned about its intelligence by observing its clever ...

The Identity Thief: How the Fork-Tailed Drongo Scams Its Way to a Free Lunch

Even in places with clement weather and ample resources, nature can be brutal. When it comes to utterly inhospitable environments like the Kalahari Desert, however, that brutality multiplies. Sure, it ...
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Hotter Kalahari desert may stop hornbills breeding by 2027

Nicholas B. Pattinson receives funding from DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute. For birds in arid zones, rising temperatures pose a significant problem. Birds in these dry zones ...
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The Kalahari Game Reserve Scientist Studying Climate Change Through the Solitary Pangolin

Photo Credit: Dr. Wendy Panaino (right) at work with a colleague in the Kalahari Desert weighing and measuring a pangolin. TswaluFoundation / Marcus Westberg @marcuswestbergphotography Wendy Panaino ...