Postcard from Kenya: Big animals, toxic plants, and the small print of the savanna

A few days at Kapiti, where the savanna’s most memorable lessons hide somewhere between a fresh pile of cheetah droppings, an invasive thorn, and a butterfly’s clever disguise. Cheetah dung and conservation genomics Solanum encounters: the good, the spiny, and the unwelcome The Mathenge problem Euphorbias, or: why African “cacti” are not cacti They will always be acacias The small print of the savanna.” Coda

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-05-17
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20253821
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Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
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Postcard from Kenya: Big animals, toxic plants, and the small print of the savanna

Sophien Kamoun
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
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Postcard from Kenya: Big animals, toxic plants, and the small print of the savanna

Sophien Kamoun
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A few days at Kapiti, where the savanna’s most memorable lessons hide somewhere between a fresh pile of cheetah droppings, an invasive thorn, and a butterfly’s clever disguise. Cheetah dung and conservation genomics Solanum encounters: the good, the spiny, and the unwelcome The Mathenge problem Euphorbias, or: why African “cacti” are not cacti They will always be acacias The small print of the savanna.” Coda

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Sainsbury Laboratory (GB)
Life in Land
Openalex Percentile: Top 6%
Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
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