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Southern Africa: How We Tracked the Eating Habits of Snakes With the Help of a Facebook Group
The Conversation Africa, 5 August 2020
Snakes are a diverse lineage of reptiles that are found on every continent except Antarctica. Despite differences in appearance, habitat preference, defence tactics and underlying… Read more »
Facebook Group Helps Research the Eating Habits of African Snakes
A study by Robin and Bryan Maritz researching the feeding habits of snakes has been published, of which the authors attributed much of their data collection to a Facebook group called Predation Records - Reptiles and Frogs (Sub-Saharan Africa), which assisted by helping to collect ecological data quickly and cheaply.
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6 August 2020
Sharing for Science - High-Resolution Trophic Interactions Revealed Rapidly by Social Media
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- Robin Maritz, Bryan Maritz
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Discrete, ephemeral natural phenomena with low spatial or temporal predictability are incredibly challenging to study systematically. In ecology, ... see more »
InFocus
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Parks around the continent have embarked on an unusual high-tech experiment to curb poaching. Flying silently and invisibly, drones could be a game-changer as they track both ... Read more »
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When Dr Louw Claassens and Dr Dave Harasti arrived in Sodwana, South Africa in early 2018, they were looking for an entirely different animal: a seahorse-like species called a ... Read more »
A young puff adder (Bitis arietans) in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa (file photo).
