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Selective foraging by aardvarks Orycteropus afer on termite mounds: influence of mound structure, spatial distribution, and geology in a savanna landscape

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Predator foraging patterns reflect how animals interact with spatially heterogeneous resources, yet how these patterns manifest across complex landscapes remains poorly understood. We investigated selective excavation of termite mounds by aardvarks Orycteropus afer in Gonarezhou National Park, examining how mound structural characteristics, size ...
Justice Muvengwi, Neo Debeila
wiley   +1 more source

Elephant space use and habitat selection change across drought timescales

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Drought threatens wildlife worldwide, but little is known about wildlife behaviour during drought. This study combines 19 years of elephant GPS data with drought conditions at three timescales. Key findings include that elephants (i) move less during drought at a 1‐month timescale and (ii) change habitat selection across drought timescales.
Irene Bouwman, Tom Claassen, Michael J. Chase, Kelly Landen, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Marlee A. Tucker   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis at an animal-human interface in Zimbabwe

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014
B.M. Gadaga, E. Etter, B. Mukamuri, K.J. Makwangudze, D.M. Pfukenyi, G. Matope   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the outcomes of a community-based health literacy intervention for hypertension and diabetes in Harare, Zimbabwe: a cluster randomized controlled trial. [PDF]

BMC Prim Care
Katena NA, Shamu S, Fana GT, Manasa J, Rusakaniko S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Association between maternal-child interaction, maternal depression and early child development: an observational sub-study in rural Zimbabwe. [PDF]

BMJ Paediatr Open
Ooi Y, Chandna J, Majo FD, Tavengwa NV, Mutasa B, Kandawasvika G, Chasekwa B, Humphrey JH, Ntozini R, Prendergast AJ, Gladstone M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Thriving despite adversities: resilience strategies of school-going mothers in Hurungwe, Zimbabwe. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Thondhlana G, Ndwandwe ND.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source