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IT’S great for a family to have a shared interest. We all have our own individual pastimes but we come together when it comes to the brilliant diversity of life, flora and fauna, of South Africa’s eco-system.
Naturally, we have ended up with a bookcase full of guides, some area-specific, others on birds, trees, mammals, succulents, insects, etc.
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As a nature lover I spend a lot of time in game reserves. Hearing the lions at night is a magical sound and I can identify the fish eagle and a few other birds. However, I must admit that my birding knowledge is limited.
So a while back we played a CD as we drove home, and with the book in hand, we hoped that by the time we got home we would be able to identify many more birds.
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My First Book of Southern African Wildlife is a must-have!
Children will be kept entertained for hours paging through this book.While their eyes roam the pages looking at all the pictures of mammals, birds and reptiles, they’ll be learning loads, too.
Names of animals are given in English, Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu.
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THE MOVIE White Lion is yet another film that highlights the tremendous strides the South African film industry is making. It is a simple and timeless story about a young and rare white lion who survives through adversity, eventually assuming his sacred place in the animal kingdom.
It is a far cry from the animated Lion King movie. In fact, producer Kevin Richardson said in an interview that he wanted to make a movie that was different from a fictionalised wildlife film. He explained that the parameters set by executive producers Rodney and Ilana Fuhr were stringent and incredibly difficult to achieve.
“We had to represent authentic wild lion behaviour through the action of the lions. There are no special effects, animatronics and puppets,” said Richardson.
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Uitspraak: groen wortels
Dit is nogal ’n uitdaging om ’n tuinboek te publiseer wat werklik al die uiteenlopende streke van Suid-Afrika in gedagte hou.
Marianne Alexander se Tuinmaak in Suid-Afrika deur die jaar slaag in ’n groot mate daarin om iets vir tuiniers oor die land heen te bied.
Die boek bied ’n maand-vir-maand-gids van wat in die tuin gebeur, tuintake vir die spesifieke maand, wat om in die kombuis- en vrugtetuine te doen, die geurtuin, plae wat in daardie tyd beheer moet word en wat daardie maand blom.
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This fascinating book discusses the animal, starting with the largest land mammal, including some interesting newspaper articles and photographs of victims where such exist, or in the case of the man teasing a lion, a potential victim, and then gives tips for avoiding trouble as well as some of the medical information for treating the likely condition arising from an unpleasant encounter with the animal or insect concerned. Highly readable, this is an excellent mix of the sensational and good old fashioned common sense.
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Fundis may find this book fascinating but it’s not for ordinary folks.
The authors are a medical doctor (David Cumes) who is also trained as a sangoma; Rael Loon who is an ecologist/conservationist/and birder specializing in the Lowveld; and Dries Bester, an sociology academic, multilinguist and an environmental impact assessor and a registered tour guide specializing in the Soutpansberg region.
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“Lenny likes booty.” Yeah, so do a lot of us, but why say so in a book centred on a guy’s affinity with majorly dangerous animals?
Well, Lenny is “an all-African male” cheetah, who really fancies girls – and only girls – with big bums.
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“HARMLESS, colourful, melodious and ecologically vital,” — that’s the verdict on frogs from Louis du Preez and Vincent Carruthers, co-authors of A Complete Guide to the Frogs of Southern Africa.
Frogs are found everywhere — mountains, rainforests, deserts — and on all the continents barring Antarctica , a ubiquity married to a unique physiology that has seen them become unwitting barometers of environmental damage all around the planet.
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Use this “field guide” sitting down – it’s a solid piece of work. It claims to be the “largest and most comprehensive” one-volume collection of photographs of southern African birds, pulling together more than 2 500 images in the process. Not only are all of southern Africa’s 958 bird species included, but a further 17 are added from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and its islands (including Tristan da Cunha).
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