Transvestite lizard discovered Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Young male lizards in South Africa imitate females to fool aggressive older males into leaving them alone, in an example of transvestism in the natural world, researchers have found.
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South Africa deny part in Plot. Posted: 2 years ago by thenegativeone
South Africa has rejected "with contempt" claims by jailed British mercenary Simon Mann that it backed his plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Background here
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Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Nuclear Facility in South Africa attacked. Four armed men broke into the control room of the Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center, shooting "a senior emergency officer" in the process. The government nuclear agency Necsa insisted the paper not run this story.
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Penguin turns up in South Africa Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Animal rehabilitation officials are trying to find a home for a king penguin that turned up in Cape St. Francis, South Africa.
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Earthwatch scientists discover 18 new species Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
Earthwatch scientists in South Africa have discovered 18 new species of invertebrate including spiders, snails, millipedes, earthworms, centipedes and true bugs.
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Aussie lizard rolls over to avoid sex Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Females of an Australian species of lizard rely on testosterone for a most unusual method of keeping amorous males off their back, researchers have found.
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Oprah opens school in South Africa Posted: 3 years ago by LatueOfStiberty
US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has opened a $US40 million school for disadvantaged South African girls
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Lizards Undergo Rapid Evolution After Introduction To A New Home Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru. Now, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes.
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Transvestite Wives Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
looks at three transvestite relationships as seen through the eyes of their wives and partners. Sheila discovered seven years into her marriage that her husband Dennis was a transvestite. 20-year-old Sam, is embracing her 40-year-old partner Chris’ tranny lifestyle. Robyn, who has struggled to be accepted because of her weight, at last finds happiness with her cross-dresser husband Dean.
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New family of gecko discovered by researchers from the U of M and Villanova University Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History and Pennsylvania's Villanova University have discovered a new family of gecko, the charismatic large-eyed lizard popularized by car insurance commercials.
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All the Net's April Fool's Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
Just about every single April Fool put on the web today, for your amusement.
Also has April Fool's since 2004.
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Corrective Rape Posted: 3 months ago by pocksucket
Two words that do not belong together. Their very juxtaposition in the headline should give you shudders. In South Africa the "cure" for lesbians is rape.
Further information here
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Pepper-spray defence means South Africa robbers face loss of balance at cash machines Posted: 5 months ago by nateebiinature
Cash machines offer an ever-growing menu of services beyond merely dispensing money. For tampering criminals, this now includes a squirt of pepper spray in the face .
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Pregnant South African women set world record Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Over 1,000 pregnant women in South Africa set a new world record on Saturday for the largest gathering of women due to give birth -- and there were no early arrivals.
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Rapist Asks For Forgiveness Decades Later Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames
Dumisani Rebombo, 49 had participated in a gang rape when he was a teenager. Rapes in South Africa have become epidemic with 1 in 4 males admitting that have raped someone. Rebombo is working on changing that. He also went to the woman he raped so many years ago and sought forgiveness.
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England Success Celebrated In South Africa Posted: 3 months ago by ruthstark
England's qualification for the World Cup finals has prompted celebrations in South Africa among the organisers and local football fans.
Those planning the 2010 tournament are relieved because they know England supporters will come in huge numbers and spend plenty.
The fans are delighted because they are desperate to see the players they watch on TV every week in the flesh and on South African soil.
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S Africa announces elephant cull Posted: 2 years ago by topofall
The South African government has said it will allow elephants to be culled for the first time in 13 years.
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New limbless lizard species discovered Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
An Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.
Looks like a snake to me.
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Theft in South Africa - Watch the Baboons!!! Posted: 2 days ago by Ankabout
Cape Town in South Africa is having some serious problems with some very crafty baboons raiding cars by opening the doors and jumping through open windows.
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HIV drugs turned street drugs in South Africa Posted: 8 months ago by Bornbad
Teens in South Africa have found a new use for Efavirenz, an antiretroviral drug that prevents HIV from making copies of itself in the body. Instead of using Efavirenz as it was intended – to keep the AIDS virus at bay – kids are crushing the pills and smoking the powder to get high
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Study shows lice were carried from Africa Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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