Days from the end...

Almost home. Lots to catch up on, but it has been a great trip.


Song of the Day: "Goin' Home (Live from Woodstock)", Ten Years After

An appropriate pairing: fresh elephant dung from the road bisecting the forest, and a self portrait following a 5km hike through the forest and along the eastern border.

Song of the day: I'm So Tired - The Beatles

Angie and Charlotte returning from Chimp Dung Hunt. Also, whilom many tropical trees relay on animals for seed dispersal, here is a wind-dispersed seed that landed by my feet during a census.

Song of the Day: Funeral - Band of Horses

Images from the forest. Fresh Buffalo track.

Song of the day: Guaranteed - Eddie Vedder

I suppose I should tell you why we're here. We're collecting data on primate and other mammal density in this mosaic forest, with mature and replanted compartments. Two students are here - one is collecting dung from elephants and chimpanzees to examine genetic variation between populations inside and outside Kibale Park, and the other is collecting behavioral data and urine from gray-cheeked mangabeys, to examine stress differences between this site and the less disturbed site of Ngogo. I am conducting primate censuses on three 4.5km transects, counting the mammals I encounter. We have also placed a new chimpanzee nest transect near the border of the park, to monitor chimpanzee movements and potential crop raiding correlations. A lot going on, but we are having fun.

Song of the day: Secret World (Live), Peter Gabriel