By Leah Powley (Colby College) Now onto week four (goodness!)—and what a week it was. Saturday began with a breakfast of a different sort, as we had run out of oatmeal: a bowl of the glorious strawberry-flavored Morvite (kind…
By Emily Diener (Macalester College) We left our base camp at Los West Winds on Saturday morning (October 12th) for a “wee little” overnight trip down to Lago Cochrane, which lies about fifteen kilometers or so to the south….
October 20th, 2013 By Jonathan Piazza (Point Loma Nazarene University) It was September 28th when we first departed from Dibatana Research Camp. As much fun as Khwai was at both the Magotho and Adventure Camp locations, the trip back…
Students in Botswana have been assisting PhD student, and former RRCS Botswana instructor, Lindsey Rich with her research on carnivores in the Okavango Delta (read more here). In late September, we set out 52 remote camera traps at 26 locations…
(Python sebae) By Jonathan Piazza Rock Python, Rock Python You make a bad pet. You’re brought into homes and then get way too big. Rock Python, Rock Python You eat like crazy! You need a lot of food…