Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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29 Robin chat stone chat northern double-collared sunbird Hildebrandt's francolin speckled mousebird bronze sunbird golden-winged sunbird purple grenadier ?? mouse colored penduline tit umbrella acacia trees (pix). There is a rather good forest at the rim, descending for a ways, then it dries out and there is a grassy bottom to the crater. Sodom Apples (Genus: Solanum). With yellow fruit. removes hair from leather We reached the crater floor. 2 ostrich augur buzzard, nicely seen on ground fiscal shrike wild fig trees, along water courses wing-snapping cisticola Fisher's sparrow lark 30 wildebeest in distance 50 buffalo in distance anteater chat, black with white wings capped wheatear Senegal plover red-capped lark scattered wildebeest dusky turtle dove zebra 12 ostrich One hippo, lying by the river. Then we watched a cheetah, perhaps 150 yards off, for about ten minutes. It was sitting up and didn't move. Cheetahs are the "greyhounds of the cats." warthog red-wing bush lark 20 Thomson's gazelles Kittlitz's plover 2 jackals, black backed black-headed heron sacred ibis cattle egret night heron lion pride (pix) 11 cubs, 3 mothers Lion cubs have a longer period of adolescence than any other cat, two years or more. Cubs do a lot of play, seemingly learning their hunting and defensive skills this way. The pride is made up of
30 relatives. Mothers keep their cubs secluded from the rest of the pride for six weeks, but after that the whole pride takes turns nursing, babysitting, and playing with them. Prides may be as large as 40, but if so, break up into smaller groups and assemble in large groups only on occasion, perhaps after a large kill. Lions can consume a quarter of their body weight at one time, and then sleep it off. The lionesses spend up to 20 hours a day resting, then hunt dramatically, as we were about to see. We left the lions a bit to try to catch some buffalo that were moving through. buffalo (pix) Then we returned to watch the lions some more, culminating in a lioness killing a zebra. We watched the stalk for an hour or more. The three lionesses went different ways, slowly. The closest one often looked back, then the second one started out in a different direction, then the third. There were two zebras oblivious to it all; the wind was in the lionness's favor. After perhaps forty minutes stalk, the furthest lioness sprang forth, and the zebra ran, but ran in the direction of the closest lionness, the first one that had set out on the stalk. She waited until it came near, then sprang, jumped at its rear, and it went down. When we next saw it, she was hanging on its neck. The drivers of the vans moved around a bit closer as soon as it was clear that the zebra was down. When we got to see it from the new perspective, the zebra was still kicking and one lioness was still gripping its neck. She held it about 10 minutes until it stopped kicking. The other lioness went off to fetch the cubs, who came another 20 minutes later. They all piled on top of it, but did not immediately start eating it. The cubs stood all round on top of the zebra. We watched another 20 minutes but we never really saw it torn open. All this was about midday. The zebra killed was an adult. Others had said that lions couldn't catch adult zebras and wildebeest because they could outrun them, but the three lionesses working together got this one. Tigers, in India, not Africa, are longer and heavier than lions, but the lion is the second largest cat. Lions do give a "lazy, lordly" impression most of the time, then erupt in the violence of the hunt. Hyenas are "botched and sulking." Continuing, lone lion well hidden in bushes 2 hyenas We reached the salt or soda flats on Lake Magadi. Egyptian geese, a hundred or more. glossy ibis, several hundred cattle egret, several hundred blacksmith plover 3-banded plover, nearer the water lesser flamingos, 1,000 or more of them black winged stilt cape teal Then we drove to a picnic area, under open trees. There was a black kite accustomed to taking food from tourists here. Terrible toilets. We ate a picnic lunch. Continuing, after lunch
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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 32 and 33: 27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
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
Page 83 and 84: 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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