Sea Turtles of KZN

...  But what had the greatest impact on sea turtles was the slave trade: nothing was easier or cheaper than to feed that sad human cargo with turtles and eggs loaded up from all the remote beaches and islands of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans...
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Fixing Our Relationship with Food

...This could be the high street in just about any city in Africa, with hungry people bustling about on its streets, and those in the business of food setting up shop to feed their appetites...
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Fertilisation of Pastures

... ©Wald1siedelHere pastures are fertilised with liquid manure.The aim with pasture fertilisation is to ensure that a pasture contains the nutrients needed for animal production and produces enough dry matter for feeding livestock...
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The Endangered Geometric Tortoise

...With the geometric tortoise, it's too late to get authentic baseline information because the animal's habitat and numbers have shrunk so dramatically that all science can do is record its current status, precipitously close to being gone forever..
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K2 People of Mapungubwe

...A number of strange ‘beast burials’ containing shattered animal bones and broken pottery were also found, and they are thought to have spiritual significance. Accommodation at K2 would have been divided up according to social status...
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What Social Structure does Eland Have?

...The hierarchy is maintained by subtle ritualized threats which, if not responded to appropriately by an inferior animal, are followed through with persuasive jabs of the horns...
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Preparing the Evening Meal

...the digestive tract until they end with the crop, a bloated punctuation mark where the transparent membrane is pulled drum-taught over the bird’s last meal: whole maize kernels, looking like they have only just arrived on the other side of the animal..
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Poultry Markets in South Africa

...Standards to sell birds as free-range will also differ between retailers and be even higher if you want to sell the birds as free-range organic, as this will have an impact on the type of feed and medicines that may be given to the birds.Slaughter Age..
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Nature's Valley Attractions

...benevolent and balmy climate means minimal variation in weather between seasons, although most of the rain is in winter.Champion Yellowwoods©Roger de la HarpeThe Tsitsikamma Forest in Nature's Valley.Even though Yellowwood trees were heavily cut down to feed..
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Guide to Wildlife Viewing in South Africa

...Rangers appreciate questions, which give them an idea of your range of knowledge and of how much detail to include in their animal descriptions...
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Generational Farming

...Generational FarmingGenerational FarmingPassing on the Baton©Eric MillerJan Scheepers and his wife Amelia.Keeping commercial farmers in the business of growing food is key to a nation’s ability to feed itself...
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The Hides of Wild and Domestic Animals

...Skin-working involved a number of processes: flaying the animal, fleshing, dressing, cutting and sewing. In the past, men did most of this work, but women assisted with the dressing of skins...
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Things to Do in Kei Mouth

...riding trails.For maybe as long as 1 500 years, Xhosa people have been herding their cattle up and down the Wild Coast beaches and among the hummocky seaside hills, from grassland patch to patch, village kraal to kraal, creating a network of narrow animal..
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Charles Hopkins

...He had intended on studying animal husbandry, merely taking viticulture as a subject out of interest...
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Alpaca Production

...The high-altitude South American Quechua people still eat alpaca meat, but the animal is not commercially used for meat or milk. The alpaca has very small teats - the size of pencil points - and it is very difficult to milk them by hand...
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Thick-Tailed Bushbaby

...The pads of thickened skin at the end of its fingers and toes gives grip in grabbing branches.Thick-tailed Bushbaby DietThick-tailed bushbabies are largely gumivorous and frugivorous, meaning they feed on the gum and saps of trees, insects and fruits...
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Zorgvliet

...There’ll be talk about gravity feed, conveyor-belt systems, custom-built tanks, automated punch-downs and computerised cooling and monitoring systems...
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Problems with Goats on Pastures

...Walk the goat a bit and feed dry coarse hay. Frothy bloat is usually caused by overeating lush, damp feeds such as clover, alfalfa or legume pastures. The tiny bubbles are impossible for a goat to belch up...
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Activities in Karkloof

...It’s set in rolling green hills with beautiful scenery all around, and visitors can tuck into a cheese tasting, buy the ones they like, or have a picnic and feed the goats...
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Tuli Cattle

...  Tuli cows have great maternal qualities, such as good fertility, milk production and low calf mortality, whereas the bulls grow well and have a good feed conversion ratio and carcass quality.Production RegionsThe Tuli breed is produced throughout..
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Wagyu Beef

...Farmers need to comply with various ethical and animal welfare practices, keep thorough production records and bull calves need to be castrated before they are five months old.By Glenneis KrielFor bulk or Wagyu Beef export enquiries please use the..
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Jan Van Riebeeck Arrives at the Cape

...And, for the first 9 years of its existence, the little settlement charged with supplying fresh food to the ships in the bay was often too weak to feed itself.Falling on Deaf EarsDespite the successful cultivation of a small Company Garden next to the..
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African Elephant

...African ElephantAfrican Elephant© Justin FoxNameAfrican elephant or African bush elephant (loxodonta africana)Elephant AppearanceWith a weight of 6 tons and a height that can reach 3.3 m to the shoulder, the elephant is the largest land animal in..
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Industrialisation and Food Production

...determined how big or fast cities developed.Advent of the RailwayHungry City author Carolyn Steel writes about how London in the mid-1800s was limited to a size of about 2.5 million people as long as food was traipsing into the city along roads, under animal..
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KZN Wild Coast to the South Coast

...Human and animal scavengers followed the dwindling band of survivors, making short work of the fallen. Only a small proportion of the original crew of most wrecks made it back to Europe...
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