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Fuzzy horizontal red bands near the bottom of the image represent the drone of insects, and the ascending thin red pillars just below the bands show birdcalls, including those of the Natal francolin and the chinspot batis, pictured below.

The Form and Function room is filled with artfully mounted animals — including a caracal leaping to capture a ground-dwelling bird called a black francolin — and the skeletons of native and non-native mammals and birds.

A caracal catches a black francolin in the Form and Function room.Credit:

Francolin are common, and storks were seen, but scarcely any other birds, and bees and butterflies are rare.

They hunt the ibex and shoot the francolin and the bustard, and make soup of them.