Articles for tag: Animals Around the Globe, Discover Wildlife, Frog Species, Herpetology, Zoologists

Macro photograph of a frog partially submerged in water with a small plant on its nose.

What South Africa’s Wildlife Reveals About Language, Identity, and Conservation

Jan Otte

South Africa’s biodiversity isn’t simply a cache of exotic species, it’s also a living repository of cultural history. For decades, scientific literature has compiled frogs and reptiles in Latin names, so the Indigenous nomenclature for these animals is dispersed and unrecorded. And now, in a trailblazing research led by zoologist Fortunate Phaka, the first comprehensive ...