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Botswana

Beginnings of Research

Written by Stacie Wright (University of Vermont)   We’ve spent the last week in the bush in Sankuyo. Here we did some bird monitoring and practice herbivore drives. In the mornings we woke up around sunrise and left to do…

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Greetings from Botswana!

Written by Henry (Hank) Dodge, (Colby College)   Hello world! The students of the 2017 spring semester arrived in Maun on February 2nd after over 20 exhausting hours of travel. As we were greeted by our enthusiastic (and awesome!) instructors…

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Glow in the Dark

By Kiley Haberman (University of Vermont)   Scorpions are among the earliest forms of land animal, and their basic body plan has remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. The earliest known fossil scorpions date back 425 to…

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Things that go Bump in the Night

By Gabriel Feinman-Riordan (College of the Atlantic)   As child I was very aware of the things that went ‘bump’ in the night. There was the boogeyman in my bedroom closet, the spooky owl outside my window, and the giant dinosaur…