Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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40 jackal scat from wildebeest scat from zebra 3 ostrich rhino tracks rhino midden - territorial dung pile, a big pile of it; some of it fresh. 2 white rhinos seen in the distance. We tracked around to see them closer up and this time succeeded. Steenbok, seen well. We crossed a ravine and climbed a rocky hillside to see the rhinos better. Watched them well for perhaps a minute or two, then someone stood up and spooked them off. Black rhino calves trot behind; white rhino calves are pushed ahead. Black rhino are more aggressive. But sometimes the white rhino calf is out front, and sees you and is curious and comes on, with mother behind. Rest/breakfast stop on top. Typically there are ten wet years and ten dry years here. Zebras do well in dry years. Look at the animal census graphs in the "Make the Most of Kruger Book." They show sharp declines in the 1982/83 drought and the 1991/92 drought, though there is no ten wet/ten dry years cycle evident here. Animal populations of grazers/browsers are related mostly to the availability of food, and therefore to rainfall. Carnivore populations are difficult to estimate, but seem mostly to track the availability of food in turn, and therefore also track, via the ungulates, the rainfall. Fires. The veld often burned every 2-3 years, with natural fires, but often also with fires set by natives. 3-4 wildebeest impala lily - in the rocks. Kruger is a summer rain area with dry winters. It is winter here now, actually just a cool season. The Cape Province is a winter rain area with dry summers. Return to camp for lunch. I had cooking duty again. Took a lot of time chasing monkeys away from the food for lunch. Video in early afternoon, a copy of a video that the Park Service has decided not to release -- a doubtful narrative that left people confused about the problems. Off to sundowners 2 nyala seen from the truck. Dark, but rather like kudu. Sundowners, first at a large sycamore tree that people took a notion to climb. There were hippos in the river, and we went down near the river but had to back off. The hippo was grunting and coming our way. We retreated some to an area beneath the sycamore tree. Hippos kill more people than any other African animal, mostly because people underrate them. Nice fish eagle in the sky. We got back in the bakkie to go to another place up the river a bit, and walked down to the river.
But it was getting dark and we didn't stay long. Returning in the bakkie: water dikkop, flew up from the highway Meller's mongoose. Black, bushy tail. Nocturnal. Ran along the road on the way back. 41 To bed. We kept watch 11.30 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. The large spotted genet was prowling around and we watched it with the flashlight, seen quite well. Albizia (al bizz ee uh) is the tree, false acacia, rather like an acacia but has no thorns. July 13, Thursday. Off in the bakkie at 6.30. We returned to the area where we had had sundowners the first evening, with the windmill and watering trough. White rhino midden sausage tree impala midden lappet faced vulture, three in a tree black-backed jackal 30 impala strangler fig on a leadwood tree elephant wallow Buffalo thorn - Ziziphus, with one straight thorn and one recurved thorn. The Zulus plant them on graves and think that they can tell how the deceased fare by how the Buffalo thorns flourish or not. serrated hinged terrapin Return to the bakkie brown headed parrot, seen back at the bakkie seen from the bakkie on the way back to camp: ostrich 100 impala 4 warthogs 1 wildebeest lunch and midday rest 3.30 p.m. Off for sundowners, on the last night in camp. Jackal. Then an elephant encounter. Elephant charge. We were riding along a narrow road, fighting bushes coming by the edge of the truck. There was an elephant to one side of the road, but when he saw us he started coming our way, first slowly, and then somewhat faster. He was a male with moderate sized tusks. Jan backed the truck up some distance, and the elephant kept coming faster. He was in must and aggressive, now with his ears held out open at the side. Jan backed the bakkie eventually into a thorn bush and couldn't go any further. He loaded his gun,
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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
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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 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: 39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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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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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