The Bush Talks

06/12/2017

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11/01/2017

Recent discoveries on how Rhino's use their dung to send signals to other Rhinos.

Rhinos signal gender, age, and sexual availability in their poo, said a study Wednesday which suggested mammals may use communal dung heaps as social networking sites.

23/12/2015

Medicinal uses of nature ;)

11/12/2015

A glimpse into part of why we love the natural world so much?

"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry

27/11/2015

You win some, you lose some.

24/08/2015

One of the reasons insects who undergo total metamorphosis are so successful is that the adults do not compete with the young for the same food source.

The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most exquisite in the natural world. Within the chrysalis, an inching, cylindrical eating machine remakes itself into a beautiful flyi...

17/05/2015

Have you seen these guys in your garden? The common Fiscal Shrike? The males often perch conspicuously on top of poles, fences or on branches to make other males aware of their presence and call from there if need be. They also dart down to catch insects and return to their perches. The females have a bit of rufus colour on their flanks. Look out for them in your garden.

A Fiscal Shrike (Lanius collaris) gives a few call notes.

01/05/2015

Bush Talks First Walk

29/04/2015

There are many groups of organisms which act like a single being, bees, ants, termites are some of the obvious examples. This phenomena has been described as akin to the human brain, where each neuron is not very intelligent by it's self, but collectively the neurons could be the brain of Stephen Hawking. Perhaps the ant colony is the individual and not the ant.

This abandoned ant colony revealed how genius these tiny creatures are. Ants live underground -- we usually see a relatively small exit on the surface. But y...