Sun has finally come out (sorta), which is nice after cold water showers.A couple of nights ago, the local villagers (about 1k away from park camp) had a
tiff with a local elephant herd. they took torces (the fire kind) and tried to
chase them out of their gardens screaming and blowing horns at
them and such. Mostly, it pissed the elephants off...and they made
even more noise. The drama of the day in the forest. :)
Otherwise, things are going ok.
I saw an interesting encounter between a red colobus group and a baboon troop yesterday. Despite disparities in body and group size, the red colobus managed to chase of the baboons. This happened literally feet outside my guesthouse window. The red colobus males were dispalying like crazy...vocalizing, jumping up and down on the ground all puffed up and slapping the ground. What courageous little dudes! I suppose if you are willing to take on chimapnzees when they are hunting you down, then a baboon is nothing!
A couple of good guenon shots, too. Hope to post them soon. In the mean time, some more photos from Ngamba!
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