| A long-standing mystery in marine biology is whether whales suffer from decompression sickness, aka the bends, after rapidly rising from the ocean depths. |
| But in the villages of the Aka and the Koro, everyone maintains the tribe and subtribe are the same but for a small variation in dialect. |
| Bahuchet, who researched the Aka living in Central Africa, cites the earth pig, flying squirrel, and leopard as examples of avoided food animals. |
| But Aka is also found in skeletons of hexactinellids and lithistids in Jurassic sponge mounds. |
| In groups such as the Efe and Aka Pygmies of central Africa, allomothers actually hold children and carry them about. |
| Ferries sail to the Dahlak Islands and the nearby Sheikh Saeed Island, aka Green Island. |
