10.6.10

Carnivore project

All morning in camp, manteinance. At least I found a stunning grasshopper, resembling a dry leaf, probably of the genus Lobosceliana, very cool.
Went for lunch with Raan and Kim, we had a meeting with the researcher that are starting the Ruaha carnivore project.
They are nice people full of enthusiasm, we talked a lot and we gave them many datas and pictures of the many prides of lions we have around. They didn't expect do many infos all in once but between all the guides there, Riaan and me we provided a wide amount of datas.
They are also very interested on the small research on wild dogs Malcolm, Daphne and me did some years ago, drawing id cards for around 40 of them, at least it will be useful to someone.
We divided loads of pictures into the various prides and explained the presumed boundaries, they were chuffed.
We will help them with datas on every sighting from now on.
They gave us a camera trap to be used by night time to get some record of nocturnals carnivores, and I am chuffed about that.
Kipunji pride on the way back, a bad bad tempered old female elephant charging over and over again and the first Combretum purpureiflorum in blossom.
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