“You’d have to get a lot of spiders together and feed them a whole lot of food to make a web that big.”
Texas state biologist Mike Quinn describes how a vast spider’s web has appeared along almost 200 metres of pathway in Lake Tawakoni State Park. The origin of the web is puzzling experts (The New York Times, 31 August)
“Bushmeat hunting is the most common factor pressing upon antelope populations. In the old days, this was for local consumption. Now it includes tables in far-off cities that, incredibly, extend to London and Paris.”
Ecologists Tim Caro and Paul…
