By Fen Bowen (Colby College) Which animal is the largest of the antelope family, and is found patchily in East and Southern Africa? Which animal relies on dense thicket for evasion from predators, and when running will lift its…
By Drew Stazesky (University of New Hampshire) Hey everyone! We’ve started our final week conducting research in the Chobe Enclave of northern Botswana, and I’ll give some brief updates before continuing onto the main subject of my first blog…
Week of October 19, 2015 By Katin Liphart (Carleton College) Sometimes in life, you just need to go climb a mountain. There’s no rhyme or reason to it, nothing tangible can be gained from hiking up a piece of rock….
Week of October 10th, 2015 By Matt McIntosh (Marlboro College) We spent this week in the future Patagonia National Park working on a few different projects. We spent Monday and Tuesday surveying the Chacabuco Valley for guanaco, camping in the…
By Louise Bishop (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) A week ago we moved to the very northeast corner of Botswana where four countries (Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) come together at a river oasis. We drove 12 hours from our previous camp…