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Blog
I have been sending accounts of my field work and associated adventures to some of my sponsors for several months, so I decided to add them to my website as a blog so that anyone who is interested can keep track of my activities. There are also pictures of the movements made by the collared buffalo, as well as photos of interesting wildlife that I see on my travels. With the buffalo movement maps, each colour represents one herd and each dot represents one GPS fix. The red symbols show the position of each animal on the date of the blog.
I mention several locations in the blog, which refer to camps and concessions around my study area. This site has a clear map showing the locations that I mention. HQ is the camp where I am based. The Gomoti is the river that runs through the concession.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.
10/12/2007 - First collaring session
10/01/2008 - Stanley's and Moremi herds
18/01/2008 - My assistant Laura arrives
03/02/2008 - Rain in Stanley's
10/02/2008 - Tracking buff through mopane
16/02/2008 - Close encounters of the buffalo kind
02/03/2008 - Seven hours of overheating
10/03/2008 - Getting stuck at Stanley's
24/03/2008 - Still too wet for fieldwork
31/03/2008 - Giving myself a concussion
06/04/2008 - Recovering B78's collar
21/04/2008 - Darting B77
14/05/2008 - Chief's Island
07/06/2008 - Trying to get around water
15/06/2008 - Sampling from a mokoro
24/06/2008 - More mokoro-ing and a short break
15/07/2008 - The beautiful island
20/07/2008 - A lion amongst buffalo
27/07/2008 - B75 goes exploring
05/08/2008 - Counting buffalo
12/08/2008 - Island hopping
08/09/2008 - Stuck on the Gomoti
15/09/2008 - Counting running buffalo
21/09/2008 - Fires!
29/09/2008 - Still burning
08/10/2008 - Sampling on the Gomoti
12/10/2008 - Santantadibe
18/10/2008 - Darting and collaring nine cows
26/10/2008 - Big herd of buff
02/11/2008 - Lots of faecal samples
09/11/2008 - Darting Casey and Athena
15/11/2008 - B77 migrates
24/11/2008 - Fatty the lion
03/12/2008 - Albino lechwe
07/12/2008 - Post-migration
15/12/2008 - Lion tracking
21/12/2008 - Wet season sampling
27/12/2008 - Christmas in the bush
06/01/2009 - Happy New Year
12/01/2009 - Tracking buff
20/01/2009 - Between the Boro and the Santantadibe
29/01/2009 - Duba Plains
17/02/2009 - Crossing the Gomoti
23/02/2009 - Collecting samples in the dark
06/03/2009 - Tracking flight
10/03/2009 - Getting stuck
17/03/2009 - Avoiding pans
25/03/2009 - Wild dogs
02/04/2009 - Recovering collars
10/04/2009 - Darting Bambi
20/04/2009 - Finding Bara
29/04/2009 - Flying in the SkyJeep
13/05/2009 - Starting issues
22/05/2009 - Island hopping at Chitabe
23/06/2009 - Rising Thamalakane
01/07/2009 - Darting again
22/07/2009 - Water problems
11/08/2009 - Water still rising
04/09/2009 - Lions at Chitabe
13/09/2009 - Waiting for Harpy
30/09/2009 - Elephants
16/10/2009 - Collar issues
24/10/2009 - Chief's Island
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