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Top 10 rare snakes of Southern Africa
We often get asked what the rarest snakes in southern Africa are. This is hard…
Edible red seaweed on Zanzibar beaches
In Zanzibar, two edible red seaweed species are commonly used for food: Spinosum and Cottonii,…
Bamboo rat for dinner
Bamboo rats are a common rodent in bamboo thickets in mountainous areas of northern Vietnam.…
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Creating fire with a magnifying glass
A magnifying glass has been used to start fires since ancient times. Greek and Roman writers recorded the use of…
Hadza water sources
The Hadzabe (plural of Hadza) natural environments are the escarpments and rocky, wooded hills that form the watersheds for Lake…
Top 10 rare snakes of Southern Africa
We often get asked what the rarest snakes in southern Africa are. This is hard to quantify, as some species…
Stingless bee honey collected by Hadza people
The Hadzabe people eagerly collect stingless bee honey all year long. They do this destructively by cutting open the hives…
Bottom fish traps of the Urak Lawoi people
The following information was gathered from a Urak Lawoi man who has lived in the Rawai Beach Sea-Gypsy Village for…
Bamboo rat for dinner
Bamboo rats are a common rodent in bamboo thickets in mountainous areas of northern Vietnam. Hmong tribal people in remote…
White truffle hunting in Istria/Croatia
White truffles (Tuber magnatum) are the most highly-priced truffle species. In total, six different truffle species occur on the Istra…
Edible red seaweed on Zanzibar beaches
In Zanzibar, two edible red seaweed species are commonly used for food: Spinosum and Cottonii, also called ‘Elkhorn sea moss.’…
Datoga huts
The Datoga are pastoralist people living in various regions of northern Tanzania. Their estimated population is about 30,000. One of…
Determining cardinal points by trees
Determining cardinal points by trees in Southern African savannas (Southern Hemisphere) is a standard procedure. It is helpful in case…
Climbing a Baobab tree
A Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) is characteristic of African Savannah biomes. In Tanzania, the Hadza people in the mountainous southern…
Datoga spears
Datoga spears have a long history but were replaced for hunting by bows and arrows in modern times. Nowadays, their…
White Ginger Lily for cleaning hands
White Ginger Lily (Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig) belongs to the Zingiberaceae (Ginger) botanical family. Mentawai people use the crushed stem…
Red-tailed pipe snake
The ‘Red-tailed pipe snake’ (Cylindrophis ruffus) was recently renamed ‘Jodi’s pipe snake’ (Cylindrophis jodiae), which we are talking about here.…
