This website provides materials for the Zimbabwean National Parks’ Learner Hunters and Guides (LPH) examinations.
There are six introductory articles below, followed by the most recent posts. The menu above also gives access to the different categories.
In this article we are going to look at two flowering shrubs that grow in the southern low-veld of Zimbabwe, the…
By Clare Davies, Ecologist As humans have moved about the planet they have taken with them, deliberately or accidentally, pathogens, animals…
Dendropicos fuscescens (dendro, Greek = tree, picos, Greek = pecker; fuscescens, Latin = becoming brown) Hohodza, chingogogo, chigogodza (Shona); Pic cardinal (French); Pica-pau-cardeal (Portuguese)Drumming: http://www.xeno-canto.org/173496Call: http://www.xeno-canto.org/280247 I have seen…
Hwange National Park is the country’s oldest National Park (set up in the 1920s). It is in the north-western corner of…
Cypsiurus parvus (cypsiurus: from kupselos, Latin = a kind of swallow, plus ouros, Greek = tailed; parvus: Latin = small) Nyenganyenga, mherepere (Shona = swallow, similar to but smaller than a swift); …
UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Background The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) gives the title of “World Heritage…
Turdus libonyana (Genus: Turdus, Latin = thrush; species: lebonyana = a Tswana personal name) Merle kurrichane (French), Tordo-chicharrio (Portuguese) Alarm call: http://www.xeno-canto.org/311704 ; Song: http://www.xeno-canto.org/280793 This picture, taken I fancy, in the…
Lanius collurio (Genus: Lanius [Latin = butcher]; species: collurio [Greek = kollyrion, ancient name for a thrush-like bird]) Pie-grieche ecorcheur (French), Picanco-de-dorso-ruivo (Portuguese) Video (recorded in Burön, near Örnsköldsvik, Ångermanland,…
African wild dogs or painted dogs or painted dogs are just a few of the names given to these fascinating animals.…
Chalcomitra senegalensis (Genus: Chalcomitra, Greek = copper or bronze headband or cap; species: senegalensis, Latin = from Senegal)Dzonya, Tsodzo (Shona: generic), Souimanga a poitrine rouge (French); Beija-flor-de-peito-escarlate (Portuguese) Song: http://www.xeno-canto.org/158287…
