EcoTraining is South Africa’s oldest and largest nature training school. As well as the Field Guide/Nature Enthusiast online training, Tracking Enthusiast and Birds of Southern Africa are shorter live courses that are ideal pre-trip preparation. For more info see www.
ecotraining.co.za.
DENIS COSTELLO
Plantigrade, digitigrade, unguligrade. It was a dismal Monday in an Irish winter, and yet I was happy, contemplating the evolution of African mammalian feet, with visions of scampering monkeys, sprinting cheetah and stealthy elephant. For a couple of hours, a window had opened and filled the room with exotic sounds and the luminescence of the natural world.