http://www.madprime.org/articles/tag/acacia en-us 40 <p><A HREF=http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharman/364472558/><IMG width=100 style="float:right" SRC=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Whistling_thorn.jpg></A> While reading up on giraffes and acacias on the internet, I noticed that the acacia featured in the original Science article wasn't in Wikipedia at all - not even a stub! The acacia, <em>Acacia drepanolobium</em> (Whistling Thorn) has a ton of info about it <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=acacia+drepanolobium">lying around on the internet</a>, so it definitely deserves a wikipedia entry.</p> <p>I found a creative commons photo on Flickr and the photographer, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/sharman/">Martin Sharman</a>, graciously changed the licensing on the photo to allow for commercial usage so I could use it in the wikipedia article. So I made the article, and I think the subject is pretty cool - this tree has a neat symbiosis with several species of ants, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_drepanolobium">check it out</a>.</p> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:55:00 +0000 urn:uuid:66a699c0-dc3e-4ce0-8ddb-c29304e3a2e2 Madeleine Ball http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/01/22/antsy-acacias biology acacia insects