Images: David Guarnieri & Gerhard Theron Description/How to recognize The Red-billed Buffalo Weaver is the largest weaver in South Africa […]
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Ixodes rubicundus
Official Common Name: Ixodes rubicundus Description/How to recognise a Karoo paralysis tick The Karoo paralysis tick is a shiny, eyeless, […]
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Martial Eagle
Common names: Martial Eagle (Eng.); Breëkoparend (Afr.); Ukhozi (generic for ‘eagle’; isiXhosa); uKhozi (generic term for ‘eagle’; isiZulu); Gama (Xitsonga). […]
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Root-mouthed jellyfish
Images: Peter Southwood Introduction The root-mouthed jellyfish (Eupilema inexpectata) is one of the few true jellyfish species that occur in […]
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Nuttaliella tick
Nuttalliella namaqua is the sole tick species of the monotypic genus and family Nuttalliella and Nuttalliellidae respectively, and it is […]
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Oil-collecting bee
Common names: oil-collecting bee, oil-bee (Eng.). Derivation of scientific name: This species of Rediviva was named after the late Charles […]
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Breede River Redfin
Official name: Breede River Redfin Derivation of the scientific name: Its scientific name comes from the Ancient Greek pseudos meaning […]
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Black-footed cat
Official common name: Black-footed cat Scientific name and classification: Animalia Chordata- Mammalia-Carnivora-Felidae-Felis-nigripes (Felis nigripes, Burchell 1824). Common names: English: Black-footed […]
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Silver butter catfish
Common names: Bavhuri (Tshivenda); Baburi (Sepedi); Bavuri (Xitsonga) Description/How to recognise a Silver butter catfish Schilbe intermedius, also known […]
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Subantarctic fur seal
The subantarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus tropicalis Gray, 1872, is widely distributed throughout the entire southern hemisphere and breeds on temperate […]
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White-winged tern
Image: Chris van Rooyen Common names: White-winged Tern, White-winged Black Tern (Eng.); witvlerksterretjie (Afr.); witvleugelstern (Dutch); guifette leucoptère (French); Weißflügel-seeschwalbe […]
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Naval shipworm
Images by Charles Griffiths. Common names: naval shipworm, woodborer (Eng.) Wars have been lost without going into battle, thanks to […]
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Cape porcupine
Common names: South African crested porcupine (Eng.); Kaapse ystervark (Afr.); noko (Sepedi); nungu (Xitsonga); nungu (Tshivenda), ingungumbane (IsiZulu). I know […]
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Brown greater galago
Common names: large-eared greater galago, Garnett’s greater galago, thick-tailed bushbaby, thick-tailed greater galago, greater bushbaby, greater galago (Eng.); bosnagaap Afr.). […]
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Springtails
Have you ever wondered what obscure ‘bugs’ you share your garden with? Springtails are one such group of creatures. Springtails […]
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