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Hatchling

Baby Superb Starling, probably only a few days old, from a nest at about chest-level in an [i]Acacia drepanolobium[/i], or Knob-thorn Acacia (the type of acacias with bulbous hollow thorns in which specialized acacia-ants dwell).
The End of Brain Hormone Project Phase 2

April 21st 2008
Well, we managed to squeak by with enough starling specimens to make Brain Hormone Project Phase 2 a success. It was looking grim there for a while - I was worried we wouldn't acquire an adequate number of samples, which would have potentially rendered the samples we had already collected up to this point (all the birds from the first phase) useless. Although, I suppose I shouldn't get too ahead ... read more
Africa » Kenya » Rift Valley Province » Laikipia

Kenyan Flag Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 196... ... read more
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