These are clarifications for research tasks in Kavango:

Round 1

Introductions: Number of animals
Animals have to be in your Nature Reserve, not your Sanctuary.

Ecology: Have all four types of producers
Grasslands: Number of grasses
Reforestation: Number of trees
Marine Biology: Number of fish
Arthropodology: Number of invertebrates
The two producers on your player board do count towards these objectives.
Termites and bees count as invertebrates.
The icon on the producer card (or the player board) is the important thing here. To give a few examples: for the purposes of the game the crab counts as a “fish” not an invertebrate, the wild cucumber is a “grass”, and the Tigerfish is classified as a “predator”.

Diversity: Number of different animal types
Each different animal type counts. They don’t have to be one of the four types shown on the example on the card. There’s seven different animal types in total.

Small: Animals that are 0 - 50cm
Animals that are exactly 50cm are included.

Lightweights: Animals that are 0 - 5 kg
Animals that are exactly 5 kg are included.

Varied diet: Animals that require two or more different types of food
Any animal with two (or more) different food requirements counts. It doesn’t have to match the examples pictured on the card.
It could be that the animal requires one fish and one invertebrate.
Or it could require two grasses and two trees.
Termites and bees count as invertebrates, not a unique type.

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Round 2

Grazers: Animals that require two or more grasses.
Any animal that requires two (or more) grasses counts. It doesn’t have to match the examples pictured on the card.

Note that the original Kickstarter version of this card was: animals that require only grasses. This card was updated for original Kickstarter backers in the Lets go Kavango replacement deck. If you are an original Kickstarter backer who wants the updated card, please contact us here.

Browsers: same as Grazers, but trees instead of grass.

Insectivores: same as Grazers but invertebrates instead of grass.
Termites and bees count as invertebrates.
(This card has not changed since the original kickstarter edition).

Piscivores: animals that require fish.
Any animal that requires fish counts. They don’t need to have food requirements that are the same as the examples on the card.

Dietary diversity: animals that require plants and invertebrates.
Any animal that requires invertebrate(s) and grass(es) / tree(s).
They don’t need to have food requirements that are the same as the examples on the card.
Termites and bees count as invertebrates.

Twitcher: number of ‘birds’
Birds with the ‘Birds of Prey’ icon do not count as ‘Birds’.

Medium: Animals that are 50 - 150cm
Animals that are exactly 50cm or 150cm are included.

Lightweights: Animals that are 5 - 100 kg
Animals that are exactly 5 kg or 100kg are included.

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Round 3

Three of a Kind: Animals that require three or more of one type of food.
They don’t need to have food requirements that are the same as the examples on the card.
Termites and bees count as invertebrates.

Two and two: Animals that require two of two different types of food.
They don’t need to have food requirements that are the same as the examples on the card.
All animals counting towards this one will need four food requirements.
Animals that require four of the same food type do not count.

Thriving Reserve: Have two each of the seven types of animals.
You need at least two of each of the seven animal types in your nature reserve. The sanctuary doesn’t count.

Falconer: Number of Birds of Prey
Birds of prey are defined as those with the ‘Bird of Prey’ icon in the game.

Small Prey: animals that require small mammals
Ophiophagy: animals that require reptiles/amphibians
Avivores: animals that require birds
Carnivores: animals that medium mammals
Apex predators: animals that large mammals
Omnivores: animals that require three or more different types of food.
For all these cards, the animals don’t need to have food requirements that are the same as the examples on the card to count towards the objective.

Large: Animals that are 150+ cm
Animals that are exactly 150cm are included.

Lightweights: Animals that are 100+ kg
Animals that are exactly 100kg are included.