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.
Euphorbia is the largest and most complex genera of flowering plants containing some 2000 species. Botanists have tried unsuccessfully to subdivide…
Dung beetles have dark, round bodies, six legs and long flying wings folded under hard, protective covers. Some male dung beetles…
The Learner Hunters and Guides papers have begun to include questions that require you to know about the relatively new ZIMPARKS…
Ardea melanocephala (Genus Ardea: Latin = a heron; species melanocephala: Greek = black head) Shorechena, nyarupani (Shona); Heron melanocephale (French); Garca-de-cabeca-preta (Portuguese) Call: http://www.xeno-canto.org/200791 Aren't the lines…
Stactolaema whytii (Genus: Stactolaema = Greek "with drip like marks on the throat"; species whytii = after Alexander Whyte (1834-1905), government naturalist in Nyasaland (Malawi) under…
PROTECT, MANAGE, RESTORE – these three words are a WWF mantra for appropriate care for the environment. In the coming weeks…
Most people take these spiders for granted because they are so familiar a sight, but very little information about them is…
Trachyphonus vaillanti (Trachyphonus: Greek = rough voice; vaillanti: Latin, named after Francois Le Vaillant [1753-1824], "the first ornithologist to visit the Cape [South Africa]",…
Scientific name: Adansonia digitata; English: baobab, cream of tartar tree; Shona: Muwuyu, Muuyu; Ndebele: Umkhomo; Tonga: Mubuyu; Kalanga: Mbuyu The baobab is…
Cathy Sharp, Zimbabwe’s fungus expert, also tells us about lichen (sometimes pronounced to sound like ‘liken,’ sometimes to sound like ‘kitchen’).…
