REPRESENTATIONS OF the human body have been sculptured since prehistoric times, for then our forebears fashioned small female figures with exaggerated breasts and hips. The sculptors of Greece and Rome made commonplace the form of gods, heroes and prominent citizens which were used to decorate public places and buildings. Wealthy patrons of the arts collected statues and statuettes of bronze or...

Epilithic diatom of the Ivory Coast is very poorly understood, aims of this study are: to document the epilithic diatom diversity from Naviculales. In this study, the epilithic diatoms in the samples collected from ten stations on the Me River between February and July 2012. A total of 56 Naviculales new taxa in 8 families were recorded. The taxonomic composition observed was dominated by Navic...

0001 The 1980s were not kind to African elephants. Poachers committed brutal acts in the pursuit of tusks to feed the human hunger for ivory. Gruesome images of the carnage they left behind—mutilated corpses sprawled in twisted repose, attended by bereft companions and bewildered orphans— helped document the precipitous collapse of Africa’s elephant populations. Between 1970 and 1989, as global...

A case of asthma is reported that was due to ivory from the tusk of the elephant, a cause of occupational asthma unique to Africa.

The United Kingdom, with the introduction of Ivory Act 2018, is at forefront elephant protection, and it hoped that governmental commitments, made in 25 Year Environment Plan, will see increased protection for other species risk due to illegal wildlife trade. However, one currently falls outside regulation Convention on International Trade Endangered Species Wild Fauna Flora (CITES) can be dire...

Osteomas are slow growing bony tumors common in fronto-ethmoid regions and rare in temporal bone. These are usually asymptomatic and require treatment mainly for cosmetic reasons. We describe a case of temporal bone osteoma in a female.