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Stella signs off

After a long battle with cancer, Stella Brewer Marsden, the indomitable English lady who founded and ran the Chimp Re-hab Centre at the River Gambia National Park in CRR, died last Thursday. Stella and her father Eddie Brewer, then chief of Wildlife of The Gambia, founded the first-ever chimpanzee rehabilitation programme in1969, as a solution for a group of chimps confiscated from hunters and traders by the Gambian wildlife authorities. Funding for Stella’s project was always difficult and she...

YOUNG OBSERVER, A Tale - Why the dog lives with men

In the old days, animals lived together in the bush.  They shared everything and held regular meetings to settle their quarrels. Then in one year there was a famine, there were no yams, no plantains, and no maize.  The men in the village hunted more animals and took them to town.  More animals were killed.  The people in the town didn’t have any yams, plantains or maize, so they ate more meat. Soon the animals became afraid.“Who will be next to die?’’,  they asked each other! So they called for...

The Unknown World Of Giant Squids

The giant squid is one of the monstrous creatures still alive and always alluring many researchers around the world but till this time seems more mystifying as none of the giant squids are captured alive and the research is based on the corpses which are washed ashore. This has led the scientists and researchers to study this mammoth sea creature from the carcasses washed ashore. With limited samples, the researchers have been able to know some amazing facts about this mammoth sea creature and...