Local is lekker... Really!

Small but conspicuous - cottonstainer bug nymphs in an urban garden

Growing up in Harare’s suburbs, I was always desperate to live in the bush. Evenings were spent poring over the list of farms (preferably game ranches) in the newspaper’s “Classifieds”, in the vain hope that I could convince my parents to abscond the city.

"That's NOT a Hippopotamus!"

These are hippos though - in size order, even!

There’s a wonderful children’s book by Juliette MacIver that inspired this post’s title. It’s a colourful and energetic rhyming romp through a zoo that neatly demonstrates a human condition – confirmation bias.