traditional knowledge
Queensland, AUSTRALIA — One afternoon last year, we sat in a village hall in Fiji chatting to residents about traditional ways of forecasting tropical cyclones. One man mentioned a black-winged storm bird known as "manumanunicagi" that glides above the land only when a cyclone is forming out to sea...

![A fishing boat in Samoa, where ten types of wind are recognized in traditional lore. [photo: AP / Lukas Coch] A fishing boat in Samoa](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fishing_boat_copy.png?itok=s3QjugDK)