Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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27 impala giraffe and baby zebras crowned crane yellow throated sand grouse, 3 seen nicely roadside Passed through treeless grasslands. White bellied bustard hartebeest Went to the Simba kopjes. Simba means lion; lions frequent the area, liking the lookouts provided by the kopjes. ostrich (pix) 8 lions, 2 male adults (pix), lying in sun. I spotted these first! 100 Thomson's gazelles Grant's gazelle with quite small fawn. 300 Thomson's and Grant's mixed in. 100 Thomson's 300 Thomson's 50 zebra Kori bustard, close up. This is a big bird. topi kestrel, species? white bellied bustard Agama lizards on the kopjes spotted hyena. Striped hyena are here, but seldom seen in the daytime. 50 Thomson's gazelles We reached a waterhole area. 4 warthogs, at waterhole hyena 2 hyena's around at the other side of the waterhole 25 Egyptian geese, about the waterhole Continuing, 400 zebra 200 zebra 400 zebra 200 zebra 200 zebra. We drove through zebra in various densities on both sides of the road for a mile and a half. Perhaps 2,000 zebra. 3 ostriches scattered Thomson's gazelles Then passed Naabi Hill gate. rufous-tailed weaver
28 black chested harrier eagle 2 Kori bustards 50 Grant's gazelles 2 secretary birds Kori bustard common jackal, seen nicely. Much like a coyote. several Kori bustards scattered zebras continuing, on a treeless plain 20 eland in distance 100 Grant's and Thomson's gazelles 5 ostrich 25 ostrich, in one group 1,000 Thomson's gazelles, drove by them for perhaps 2 miles. 300 Thomson's We passed the Serengeti Park boundary. Then there was the return trip over the road used to come in, through the dry Masai country, then we turned off on a different road, shortly to reach Olduvai Gorge, a museum and overlook. Olduvai is a corruption of the Masai word for wild sisal, which grows there. Exposed in the gorge are 5 beds, the oldest hominid fossils are at the bottom 1.5 million years old. Archaeologists claim there was once a lake here, beside which the hominids lived, now fossilized. All has since been filled in variously with volcanic ash and sediment. We lunched here, a picnic lunch, eaten outdoors in overlook area. Pictures of Masai women taken here. Continuing, back on the main road, we drove to the rim of Ngorongoro Crater. There was a rest stop at an older lodge, the Wildlife Lodge, then on to Ngorongoro Sopa lodge, arriving about 4.30 p.m. The lodge is on the rim of the crater. There is only one full university in Tanzania, the University of Dar-es-Salam. There is an Agricultural College and a Business College at Moshi, not far from Arusha. July 3, Monday. Drive down into bottom of the crater. For this we had a new guide for the day, and a more rugged vehicle, a Land Rover. The weather was misty in the morning and clearing as we went down the crater. Ngorongoro comes from the Masai warriors who took this region from the Bantu in about 1800. They used a bell, the sound of which is repeated in Ngorongoro. In the crater there are 15,000 wildebeest, 8,000 zebras, 3,000 buffalo, 100 lions in 5 prides, 400 hyenas in 8 groups, 150 hippos, in 3 pools, 15-20 black rhino, and these have three baby calves of which two are only about three months old. There are no topi, no giraffes, no impalas. Both gazelle's are here. Leopards really live in the rim on the crater, but visit the floor. Cheetah similarly hunt there. Both jackals are here. Poachers are mostly Somalians. It is prohibited to be in the crater after dark. Rangers can then shoot to kill. This is to prevent poaching. On the descent, the road proved not really worse than the other roads.
Page 1 and 2: Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
Page 3 and 4: 1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
Page 5 and 6: "Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
Page 7 and 8: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
Page 9 and 10: 7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
Page 11 and 12: 9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
Page 13 and 14: 11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
Page 15 and 16: 13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
Page 19 and 20: 15 francolins egret, unidentified e
Page 21 and 22: 17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
Page 24 and 25: 19 somewhat better on the return tr
Page 26 and 27: 21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
Page 30 and 31: 25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
Page 34 and 35: 29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
Page 41 and 42: 33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
Page 47 and 48: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
Page 49: But it was getting dark and we didn
Page 54: 43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
Page 57 and 58: 45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
Page 59 and 60: 47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
Page 61 and 62: stand your ground. Be bold and nois
Page 63 and 64: 51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
Page 65: 53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
Page 69 and 70: 55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
Page 71 and 72: 57 distance away to the four winds.
Page 73 and 74: 59 We were visited that evening by
Page 75 and 76: 61 the township with an enrollment
Page 77 and 78: 63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
Page 79 and 80: 65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
Page 81 and 82: 67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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69 momentary. Went in to the Shelte
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71 on the limousine down. December
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73 birds than we thought we might r
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lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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water supplies are put in a couple
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track in the snow. We left about 11
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4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Two coyotes came down the road in f
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Spain, surprisingly, as there are i
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Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
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July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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We drove through the rainforest and
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QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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floods and drought, much compacted.
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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