The Fynbos Guy Blog
BIRDS & BEES: FYNBOS POLLINATION
Forgive me for lowering the tone but at some stage we’re going to have to talk about it. You know, the birds and the bees - how fynbos …uhm … does it. And in plants, that means pollination. Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a flower’s male anther to the...
HIDE & SEEK: CAMOUFLAGE IN FYNBOS
It’s not easy being a wild animal. There is always something that wants to eat you, lay eggs inside you or suck out your blood. And this is even if you are the one doing the eating, egg-laying and blood-sucking. Both hunters and the hunted need to blend into their...
TOUGH AT THE TOP: CLOUD-BELT FYNBOS
Typical. You come all the way to Cape Town for a summer holiday and what happens? The wind blows so hard you lose your favourite hat. Oh, it’s bright and sunny alright, but the beaches are filled with flying sand and the ocean has been whipped up into a frothing...
MONKEY BUSINESS: THE CAPE POINT BABOONS
Dawn over a dark Atlantic Ocean. My eyes were already open when I heard the sound of bodies moving quietly behind me. It was, however, just my family beginning to wake up. We’d spent the night on the cliffs above the beach at Olifantsbos near Cape Point and it was...