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 ...

Members of the Kwaio community and Australian scientists gather for a ceremony reconciling acts of colonial violence that took place in 1927. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

The Kwaio people of the Solomon Islands have been working with scientists to protect their homeland from resource extraction and development. But violent clashes in 1927 between the Kwaio and the ...

Field Museum postdoctoral researcher Tyrone Lavery and a Kwaio community member work side-by-side to find a giant rat and monkey-faced bat in Malaita.

Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, and Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in 1927, a warrior named ...

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 ...