 | Thieving Cheeky Monkeys
2005-03-19, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Midway through our morning game drive, the truck began making a grating noise. It threw Gabriel into an immediate sour mood. He’s short-tempered and was cursing in Italian at his truck. It has give... |
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 | Sexing Hyena
2005-03-18, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Woke up to the same steady drizzle. Had some coffee and took off on a game drive into the reserve. There are no roads, just dual dirt tracks with high grass on the median strip. Serious bush drivin... |
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 | singin' Swiss Army boot camp songs
2005-03-17, Maun, Botswana. By: carnivore | | We broke camp and were on the road by 6am driving through a morning rain. We arrived in Maun by 8am looking for a coffee fix and a warm omelette. The town of Maun has a very odd vibe. Thirty years ... |
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| Jimmy Jack the Alternator
2005-03-15, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | At the predator/livestock workshop I attended a few days ago, I met a 25 yr old Swiss guy named Gabriel who lives in Botswana and is researching leopards for his Masters degree project. We got to tal... |
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| Playing God
2005-03-14, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Until now, our new young male cheetah Mochozi has been given only dead food. In an effort to determine his hunting skills, it was decided to put a live lunch in his enclosure. I took a rabbit from o... |
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| The Ecosystem of Sustainable Hippies
2005-03-13, Jwaneng, Botswana. By: carnivore | | I enjoy being ignorant to what’s happening in the world. The lack of news is a pleasure. No news is good news, eh? Better than having to suffer through:
“Our top story tonite is the carjacking t... |
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| Roots & Routes
2005-03-10, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | The Mokolodi Operations Manager sent us on a donkey run today. Its time to restock the meat freezer with cheetah food. We fired up an old flatbed truck, it coughed up a black exhaust plume, and we p... |
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 | Sweet Home Alabama
2005-03-07, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Duma & Letotse have been on a vomiting spree. Both cats have thrown up at least 5x each in the last 2 weeks. We are treating them with special medicine balls (ground beef) filled with antibiotic and... |
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 | Luckless Ganesh
2005-03-02, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Each morning here I make the rounds to check on the condition of animals. Our Martial Eagle had a significant patch of red feathers on his neck which he didn’t have yesterday. Kyle & I were able to g... |
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 | Drop the Meat & Retreat
2005-02-23, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | So far, the highlight of my days here are the moments I spend with Duma & Letotse. If I could, I would sit with them all day taking catnaps. Just being in their presence is an enriching experience..... |
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| Jack Daniels Farm Fantasy
2005-02-14, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Alone again on Valentines Day...a familiar scene. Same solitude, different continent. Apparently, it’s a big holiday here but you wouldn’t know it by looking at couples in public. Outward displays ... |
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| Enter Mochozi
2005-02-10, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Two agents arrived today in a government vehicle marked DWNP, (Dept of Wildlife & National Parks). They popped out sporting very official looking starchy uniforms with matching green berets and armpi... |
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| Wartface & her Hoggettes
2005-02-06, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Unlike the West, there is no pace of life here. Africa has a rhythm, which quickens with the adrenaline that predators evoke and slows during drought. This rhythm is often interrupted by the ignoran... |
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 | Rigor Mortis Erectus
2005-02-03, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | This morning the Steenbok which the sanctuary has been looking after is due to be released back into the bush. He’s a sweet boy should be able to fend for himself without being fed & watered by human... |
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| Anne Thracks comes to pay a visit
2005-01-31, Jwaneng, Botswana. By: carnivore | | There is a research station up in Jwaneng (about 2 hour drive northwest) where the base camp of Cheetah Conservation Botswana is located. The British girl who runs it is the one who I met back in Oct... |
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 | A brief stop
2005-01-18, Countrywide, Botswana. By: jenandmark | | Botswana 18/1/05
We were only in Botswana for three days. The first was spent traveling to Maun to pick up supplies, nothing really to tell. After a night bush camping by one of the largest baoba... |
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 | Dreadlocks & Birkenstocks
2005-01-29, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Today was the day I finally had the unique pleasure of meeting the royalty of the reserve. I had known about them before I came out to Botswana and was anxiously waiting for my chance to be introduc... |
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| Fangs of Fear
2005-01-28, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | I have no concept of the day of the week here. Unlike the West, lives here are not dictated by daily routines with rigid time schedules. There is no such concept of "routine" in Africa. The opressi... |
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| Bearing High Caliber Arms
2005-01-26, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Two game wardens for the Department of Wildlife & National Parks came to Mokolodi today. They came at our request to facilitate a 3 day rifle training program for our conservation team (guides, track... |
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 | Separation Anxiety
2005-01-22, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Today, our sanctuary received a new guest under some strange circumstances. A baby baboon about 6 weeks old arrived weighing 3 lbs. She’s the ugliest and most irresistibly cute primate I’ve ever see... |
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 | Khaki Turban
2005-01-21, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Tonite, I was invited to my first bush braai. Its an African style bbq held at dusk out in the bush. One of South Africa’s most famous pop stars, Zola, hosts a cheeselog reality tv show about making... |
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 | Shantytown for Snakes
2005-01-16, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Mosthusi came to find me and told me he’d like to show me something, and suggested I bring my camera. We walked into the bush about 100 yards and he pointed to the base of a tree overgrown with shrub... |
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 | Vultures' Restaurant
2005-01-15, Mokolodi Hill, Botswana. By: carnivore | | Just emerging from my jetlag slumber. I’ve been in my own personal haze and the things I’ve already seen here don’t seem real. The flies, however, are all too real. Not quite as bad as the document... |
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