WEAVERS

Hier is die Engelse weergawe van ons bydrae oor die versamelvoëls en kameeldoringbome: Ecosystem engineers, this is how Carla du Toit, a student from the University of Cape Town's Department of Biological Sciences, describes sociable weavers.This bird species is commonly found in Southern Africa. Her research, which was was conducted at the Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve in the Northern Cape, investigated whether camel thorn trees use sociable weavers to provide them with nutrients. Our reporter, Hanri Wondergem, caught up with Du Toit at the seventh Oppenheimer De Beers Group Research Conference and compiled this report