by Anthony | Mar 22, 2016 | Biobullets
Common Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) © Bernard Dupont, via Wikimedia Commons The desert warthog is more massive than any indigenous mammal on the whole continent of Australia. However, South Africa retains such a diverse fauna of large mammals that the opportunity...
by Anthony | Mar 10, 2016 | Biobullets
Connochaetes gnou photo © Kieth Offord Illuminating the darkest of wildebeests The black wildebeest is really medium brown if described by its pigmentation. Its blackness at a distance is illusory, caused by an optical effect which deserves a new antonym to ‘sheen’ or...
by Anthony | Mar 10, 2016 | Biobullets
Connochaetes mearnsi photo © Stefan Swanepoel Speciation of wildebeests across the dark-pale divide Connochaetes albojubatus adult male photo © Paul Mannix Two species of white-bearded wildebeests in East Africa have diverged categorically in how they achieve...
by Anthony | Mar 10, 2016 | Biobullets
Connochaetes gnou photo © Vassil The dead-pan ears of a menacing wildebeest The black wildebeest is unique among African hoofed mammals in having the ear plain brown on both sides in adults. Most hoofed mammals show distinct markings on the ears in intraspecific...
by Anthony | Mar 10, 2016 | Biobullets
What unisex really means to the spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta © botswanadreams The spotted hyena has been described as sexually monomorphic because the female possesses a phallus and at puberty can look identical to the male. However, this is misleading because, in...
