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Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the
tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong
bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal
facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about
300 kilograms (650 pounds), […]
Newly discovered facts about chimpanzees’ behavior confirms that these primates are humans’ closest relatives.
Certainly female chimps have nothing to learn from the wiliest woman, according to a study by British university researchers.
They keep mum about having sex to avoid other females giving them a hard time for luring the best males.
And that’s not all. The […]
Raw sewerage if killing off Zululand ’s fish-breeding grounds, with many thousands of fishes in the Umgeni River’s mangrove breeding grounds being wiped out because raw sewerage is spilling into the river because the electricity blackouts have cut out the local pump stations. More bad news for ecologists near any pump stations is that […]
4,000 white pensioners face starvation in Zimbabwe
May 29 2008 — Malalane truck-driver Hannes Botha (55) since 2002 makes a monthly 2,100-km round trip to Zimbabwe - hand-delivering life-saving food parcels to 350 destitute Afrikaner and other white pensioners.
There’s some 4,000 Afrikaner pensioners living a hand-to-mouth existence in Zimbabwe today, and he hopes to […]