Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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we found a rhino horn (pix), which Cleve said would be worth 5,000 rand (about $ 1,200) in the
market. A good one taken from the live animal is worth 20,000 rand. We tossed it away to let it
recycle!
white-backed vulture
long-tailed shrike
Vultures here do not really circle over a carcass. They come down quickly, even when whatever
killed it is still eating it, and wait in a tree around it. They roost in dead trees, but if you see them
sitting in a leafy tree, look for a carcass.
Found the skin of an impala left in a tree, where a leopard had carried an impala up a tree (pix).
martial eagle
porcupine quill
dung beetle balls
more porcupine quills
50 impala
Returned to the truck. The youngest of the boys was pretty fagged out.
From the bakkie, on the way back to camp:
4 kudu
12 zebra
20 wildebeest
mopane (pronounced mo pahn nee). A tree that only occurs north of the Oliphants River.
lunch. At the water pool for birds, during lunch:
crested barbet
crested francolin
red billed woodhoopoe
golden-breasted bunting
5-6 wart hogs, near the water hole
wildebeest, impala, near water hole
Afternoon game walk:
from the bakkie, en route:
3 giraffe; the male giraffe has a bald plate on top of the horns
5 giraffes
12 helmeted guineafowl
on foot:
water buck
20 impala
walked down a watercourse, mostly dry, until we came to a larger pool and waited there.
in the pool, 5 hippos, often yawning (pix)
Shortly, two elephants came to the pool, not that far away. They were taking up water with their
trunks and spraying it on themselves. (pix)
3 crocodiles on another edge of the pool