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Home range and seasonal movement of elephants in the Kunene Region, northwestern Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Keith E.A. Leggett --- Namibian Elephant and Giraffe Trust, NamibiaThis paper examines the home ranges and seasonal movements of eight GPS-collared elephants (two females and six males) in the northwestern Kunene region of Namibia. Minimum convex polygon (MCP) and the fixed kernel density estimation (FKDE) methods were used to... -
PAHs, OCPs and PCBs in sediments from three catchments in Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: T Vogt --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa R Pieters --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa BK Newman --- Coastal Systems Research Group, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South AfricaPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were analysed from sediment samples collected in 2012 from rivers, surface runoff canals and estuaries in three highly urbanised catchments in durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. PAHs were ubiquitous, at... -
Exploring the links between gender, dwelling, and career orientations of African emerging adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tshepo Matjie --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study explored the socio-ecological (i.e. gender and geographical location) influences on the career orientations of emerging adults. The participants comprised a convenience sample of 159 black African South African university students (57% rural, 43% urban; 63% females, 37% males;... -
The padloper’s tortuous path (Chelonia: Testudinidae): Two genera, not one
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Margaretha D. Hofmeyr --- , , South Africa William R. Branch --- , , South AfricaSince 1957, all padlopers were considered Homopus, which was an anomaly, because only two species have four claws on the front and hind limbs. The revival of the genus Chersobius for the five-toed species (signatus, boulengeri and solus) now limits... -
Honouring the opening: Unfolding the rich ground between the philosophical thinking of Martin Heidegger and practice-based empirical work
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Kitty Maria Suddick --- , United Kingdom Vinette Cross --- , United Kingdom Pirjo Vuoskoski --- , Finland Kathleen T. Galvin --- , United Kingdom Graham Stew --- , United KingdomThe aim of this article is to bring philosophical thinking closer to practice-based empirical work. Using Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, it offers a bridge between these two worlds, attempting to provide philosophical depth to the findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological study... -
Description of the tadpoles of two Cameroonian frogs, Leptodactylodon axillaris and L. perreti (Anura: Arthroleptidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Deise Cruz --- California Academy of Sciences, USA AnneliseL. Dawson --- Harvard University, USA DavidC. Blackburn --- California Academy of Sciences, USAWe describe the tadpoles of two closely related frog species of the genus Leptodactylodon (family Arthroleptidae), L. axillaris and L. perreti, that are restricted to the mountains of Cameroon. Tadpoles were collected from near the type locality of each species...