长颈鹿吃骨头——以及我在Safari旅行中学到的其他事情 [幻灯片]

我在南非旅行期间了解到的关于动物的惊人事情

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请原谅我。这篇文章有点自我放纵。但我最近从南非报道旅行回来,为了一个关于一些非凡人类化石的故事(稍后会详细介绍),当我在那里时,我看到了一些野生动物——对于像我这样的城市老鼠来说,这真是令人兴奋的事情。浏览我的照片让我想起了我在那里了解到的关于神奇动物的事情,我想我会分享其中的一些。我在两个地点拍摄了这些照片:约翰·纳什自然保护区,位于约翰内斯堡以北 30 公里处,以及与博茨瓦纳接壤的马迪克韦野生动物保护区。

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Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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