Mammalogists went to the Solomon Islands in search of a giant rat and monkey-faced bat -- and ended up playing a role in fostering peace between the Kwaio people of Malaita and the Western world. A ...
On October 17, 1927, HMAS Adelaide slipped into Sinalanggu Harbour on the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Aboard the light cruiser was an extended crew of 470 sailors ...
For almost a century, the Kwaio people of the Solomon Islands have been haunted by violent atrocities of the past. "There was no sense of justice or closure for the Kwaio people and the consequences ...
Tyrone Lavery, postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, traveled nearly 8,000 miles to find two species—a giant rat and a monkey-faced bat—in Malaita, one of the Solomon Islands' ...
Tyrone Lavery, postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, traveled nearly 8,000 miles to find two species--a giant rat and a monkey-faced bat--in Malaita, one of the Solomon Islands' ...