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The North American Biospeleology Newsletter

Dr. Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz would like to pass along the following link.

The North American Biospeleology Newsletter (NABN) is a publication of the Biology Section of the National Speleological Society of America (NSS). The Biology Section of the NSS was organized for the purposes of encouraging and expediting research and communication among biologists interested in the study of cave biota.

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cavebiology.org

... Cavebiology.org

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The Elephant Caves of Mt. Elgon, Kenya

Donald McFarlane, Professor of Biology at Claremont Colleges, would like to pass along the following link to Speleonet readers...  The Caves of Mt. Elgon.

Partially geophagic, they are formed within pyroclastic deposits in western Kenya...

‘Geophagy’ means ‘eating dirt’ and is done typically to supplement minerals in the diet. At night-time, elephants enter the caves, remove large fragments of rock with their tusks and eat it! They also drop a lot, providing dinner for those animals that cannot directly excavate the rock themselves.

Subterranean salt-licks devoured over thousands of years. Not only by elephants, but by buffalo, bushbuck, rock hyrax, leopard, hyaena and primates as well.

... maps, photos.

 ... 'Speleogenesis of the Mount Elgon elephant caves, Kenya' by Joyce Lundberg and Donald McFarlane.

... and this colorful 40Mb PDF.

A Wiki Directory...

When I started Spelonet one of my goals was to create a comprehensive link directory pertaining to all things "speleo". I  quickly realized that this was, for all intensive purposes, for an individual... impossible. I think my directory topped out at a couple of hundred links, at best. I quickly lost interest in endlessly trolling the web for new sites. It's not that I did'nt want to come across said sites, it's just that I did not have the time it would take to truly create the "list". Who would?

But, nonetheless, a current and comphrensive directory is of value.

SLOVENSKÁ SPELEOLOGICKÁ SPOLOČNOSŤ

Gabriel Lesinsky, editor of the SSS.sk, the official online home of Slovak speleological society, would like to pass along a link to the site.

Here's a link to the photo gallery index page.

Directory Update

Some new additions to the directory...

Coastal Karst Foundation
Speleo Phillipines.com
Cave Seekers.com
The Nature Conservancy: Caves and Karst
The Speleological Society of Japan
Tokyo Speleo Club
Yamaguchi University Speleological Survey
Geokarst
Cave Photo.com
Cave Survey.com
Cueva del Aqua.net