This blog post is provided by Anthony M. Lowney and Robert L. Thomson from the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper ‘Ecological engineering across a temporal gradient: sociable weaver colonies create year-round animal biodiversity hotspots’, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Sociable weavers (Philetairus socius) are small passerine birds, no bigger than … Continue reading KALAHARI APARTMENT BLOCKS