The biggest threats to the chimpanzee are habitat loss, poaching, and disease
News wall: Chimpanzees
Tag: typography
Diary snapshot: Spelunking
The recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems
News Wall: Weeds
A plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place"
News Wall: Venus
It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty
Diary Snapshot: Surveillance methods
The modern theodolite has evolved into what is known as a Total Station
Diary Snapshot: Shaving
Historically, head shaving has been used to humiliate, punish and show submission
Diary snapshot: Ruth Davidson
A woman of baronial rank
Diary snapshot: Broadband issues
Read the full Diary. In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals and traffic types. The medium can be coaxial cable, optical fibre, radio or twisted pair. In the context of internet access, broadband is used to mean any high-speed internet access that is always on and faster than dial-up access … Continue reading Diary snapshot: Broadband issues
News Wall: Woolly mammoths
Read the full story. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene. The woolly mammoth began to diverge from the … Continue reading News Wall: Woolly mammoths
Diary Snapshot: Porridge
It can be mixed with spices or vegetables to make a savoury dish
Diary Snapshot: Acting sensibly
Sensible's distinctive appearance includes a red beret and sunglasses
Diary Snapshot: Spooks
The title is a popular colloquialism for spies...
Diary Snapshot: Hedgehog Highways
There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas
Diary Snapshot: Cauliflower
Typically, only the head is eaten
Diary Snapshot: His floozy’s earring
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure
Diary Snapshot: Tax
A failure to pay, along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law
Diary Snapshot: Wotsits
Britain's record-breaking brand of cheesy flavour corn puffs...
Diary Snapshot: Home working
Your workplace needs you
Diary Snapshot: Buttoned-up Man
In large sizes for coats and smaller sizes for breeches...
Diary Snapshot: Storecupboard Shame
To the early Christians, chestnuts symbolised chastity...
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