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Evolutionary retention of defensive lateral pedal glands in the smallest siphonariid limpet (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Shirley C Pinchuck --- Electron Microscope Unit, Rhodes University, South Africa Brian R Allanson --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa Alan N Hodgson --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South AfricaDespite its cryptic habitat and habits, light and transmission electron microscopy has revealed that like many other siphonariids Siphonaria compressa, the smallest species of this genus, possesses lateral pedal glands. The pear-shaped glands (about 120 µm long×70 µm maximum diameter)... -
Shoot the Messager? How the Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius got its names (mostly wrong)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ian Glenn --- Department of Communication Science, South AfricaResearch into the etymology of various names for the Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius reveals a comedy of errors from Vosmaer, his French translator, Buffon, Sonnerat, and Miller to Fry. The research suggests that the name Sagittarius resulted from a misunderstanding in... -
Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Corinne Kratz --- Department of Anthropology and Institute of African Studies, United States of America Jill Weintroub --- Life in the City Programme, Wits City Institute, South Africa Noëleen Murray --- Wits City Institute, South AfricaThis paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa’s iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge’s art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989),... -
Dispersal dynamics of juvenile Secretarybirds Sagittarius serpentarius in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Melissa A Whitecross --- Terrestrial Bird Conservation Programme, BirdLife South Africa, South Africa Ernst F Retief --- Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas Programme, BirdLife South Africa, South Africa Hanneline A Smit-Robinson --- Terrestrial Bird Conservation Programme, BirdLife South Africa, South AfricaKnowledge of the dispersal behaviour of southern Africa’s juvenile Secretarybirds Sagittarius serpentarius was previously limited to a small number of ring recoveries (n = 4) in South Africa. From 2012 to 2015, 10 GSM-GPS solar trackers were fitted to juvenile... -
Disclosure in times of ART: A relational analysis of social practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Anita Hardon [d327e18] Alice Desclaux Joe LugallaThe reach of HIV counseling and testing has grown rapidly since the 2000s, particularly since 2007 when provider-initiated counseling and testing was implemented alongside voluntary counseling and testing and testing for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. Nevertheless, we still know...
