Victoria Tait's Blog
January 24, 2021
🌟 Giveaway & Book Launch
🦏 Do you get excited by a new book launch?
And do you love gripping cozy mysteries, wildlife conservation and exotic sun-drenched locations?
If you do then here is a GIVEAWAY just for you.
The winner will receive a copy of my new book, Rhino Charge, a $20 gift card for your favourite online book store, and adopt Solio, an orphan rhino living in Kenya.
Click Here to Visit my Facebook Site and Enter.
Share with fellow cozy mystery readers and increase your chance of winning!
And do you love gripping cozy mysteries, wildlife conservation and exotic sun-drenched locations?
If you do then here is a GIVEAWAY just for you.
The winner will receive a copy of my new book, Rhino Charge, a $20 gift card for your favourite online book store, and adopt Solio, an orphan rhino living in Kenya.
Click Here to Visit my Facebook Site and Enter.
Share with fellow cozy mystery readers and increase your chance of winning!
September 20, 2020
What is an Elephant’s Tusk?
Elephant tusks are elongated incisor teeth. One third of the tusk is embedded deep in the elephant’s head, and consists of tissue, blood and nerves. The longer, visible part, is made of dentine with an outer layer of enamel. This is ivory.
Elephants tusks never stop growing. Some old bulls display enormous examples, although the average size has decreased as elephants have been hunted for their ivory and the overall elephant population declines.
Big Tim, one of the last remaining giant ‘tusker’ elephants died early this year of natural courses, aged 50.
An elephant’s tusks serve a variety of purposes: digging for water, lifting branches, stripping bark from trees to eat, and for defence. The tusks also protect the trunk which is used for drinking, breathing, tearing branches from trees for food, and spraying water over themselves.
Elephants tusks never stop growing. Some old bulls display enormous examples, although the average size has decreased as elephants have been hunted for their ivory and the overall elephant population declines.
Big Tim, one of the last remaining giant ‘tusker’ elephants died early this year of natural courses, aged 50.
An elephant’s tusks serve a variety of purposes: digging for water, lifting branches, stripping bark from trees to eat, and for defence. The tusks also protect the trunk which is used for drinking, breathing, tearing branches from trees for food, and spraying water over themselves.
August 12, 2020
🐘 World Elephant Day
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.
The 12th August marks World Elephant Day, established in 2012 to highlight the plight of African and Asian elephants. In Africa alone, the number of elephants has declined by 97% since 1900. The elephant is loved and revered around the globe but its future is far from certain.
"We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.” – Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair
World Elephant Day asks for our support so that we can continue to be a collective voice speaking out on behalf of elephants. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a fantastic organisation rescuing, raising and returning orphaned elephants to the wild. A trip to Kenya is not completed without a morning visit to the trust in Nairobi, to watch the younger elephants feed and play before a delighted audience.
The 12th August marks World Elephant Day, established in 2012 to highlight the plight of African and Asian elephants. In Africa alone, the number of elephants has declined by 97% since 1900. The elephant is loved and revered around the globe but its future is far from certain.
"We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.” – Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair
World Elephant Day asks for our support so that we can continue to be a collective voice speaking out on behalf of elephants. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a fantastic organisation rescuing, raising and returning orphaned elephants to the wild. A trip to Kenya is not completed without a morning visit to the trust in Nairobi, to watch the younger elephants feed and play before a delighted audience.
August 10, 2020
"Mama Rose" Welcomes you to Nanyuki
In todays Blog stop, "Mama Rose" Hardie introduces readers to Nanyuki, the small market town in Kenya where Fowl Murder is set.
Visit Christy's Cozy Corners where Rose Hardie, the determined female sleuth in the Kenya Kanga Mysteries welcomes you to her home town of Nanyuki, in the foothills of Mount Kenya.
Visit Christy's Cozy Corners where Rose Hardie, the determined female sleuth in the Kenya Kanga Mysteries welcomes you to her home town of Nanyuki, in the foothills of Mount Kenya.
