Category: Botany
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How you can help save the Karoo
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By Sarah Wild, first published by GroundUp.org.za South Africa’s National Biodiversity Institute is calling on nature lovers to help it save the Karoo — with science “Scientists know very little about the plants and animals in the Karoo, and there is an urgent need to document the indigenous species found…
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Plant dupes dung beetles
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It looks like a pellet of buck dung, it smells like one too, but the centimetre-long seed is not dung, and is one of the few proven instances of sensory deception for seed dispersal. “The smell is incredible,” says Jeremy Midgley, a professor in biological sciences at the University of…