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Mozambique, 2005 The discovery of a new country, a new environment, also means little time for pictures, sorry folks I'll try to do better next year ! Click on the pictures to get a closer view Arrival in Mozambique |
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Thanks to Jose, his wife and his friends our trip began with a great weekend near Ponta mamoli, south of Mapoto
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Going north, end of the day in Xai-Xai
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Tofo
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Arrival in Tofo
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There, we had the opportunity to observe the classic association of pelagic animals beached :
Mollusca, Gastropoda Janthina, Nudibranchia Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 feedind on Hydrozoa, Physalia sp. and Porpita sp., |
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Janthinas
with some Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758), Cephalopoda |
Janthina prolongata Blainville, 1822, (41mm)
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Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758), (32mm)
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Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777
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Porpita sp.
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Portuguese man-of-war, Physalia sp.
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Porpita sp.
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Birds |
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Black legs, yellow feet and black bill: Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) or Egretta dimorpha Hartert, 1914 ?
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Pied crow, Corvus albus
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Low tide in Tofo
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At low tide you're walking on Cypraea annulus
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If you're lazy, have a look at an hermit crabs cluster !
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Men and women with machetes looking for mussels... or anything that can be eaten: Patellidae, Muricidae, Neritidae...
More than 50% of the population is below poverty line. |
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Strange enough those vanishing Donax are not identifid as edible.
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Exhausted Louis after low tide.
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An other exercise, my first transect... with a home made quadrat (100 x 50 cm)!
Littorinidae, Neritidae... |
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Back to Maputo... 500 km of good to very very bumpy roads... a dead wheel, 3 hub caps lost but no crash !
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Last stop in maputo
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Ubiquitous impalas, Oreotragus oreotragus
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A Red-billed oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus
on a female kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros |
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| Red-billed oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus on an impala |
Saddle-billed stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis
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Helmeted guineafowl, Numida meleagris
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Lilac-breasted roller, Coracias caudata
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Yellow-billed hornbill, Tockus leucomelas
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Glossy starling, Lamprotornis nitens
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Giraffa camelopardis
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Warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus
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Loxodonta africana
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White rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum
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Burchell's zebra, Equus burchelli
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Louis' favourite: vervet monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops |
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Back home...
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© Copyright 2005 Sophie Valtat
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