Today we went on a river walk to do some research for the vervet monkey people. They only study two groups of vervet monkeys, and are curious to see how many groupings there are on the river. Since they are busy doing their daily research on their particular monkey groups, we generously did a monkey count down the dried up river. We only counted 4 monkeys, which was a bit of a disappointment, but the walk was nice nonetheless. After the walk we had some lunch, and then Peter the general manager of Samara came and gave us a talk on mammalian surveying and erosion. Then for the first time, he drove us by the cheetah boma to try and get the cheetahs to be less skittish when a car drives up to them. They have 5 cheetahs in the boma at the moment, 3 of which are going to be sold so that the antelope on the property can manage their population size. So once the other two cheetah are released to roam the property, they will have these new chips installed on their body, so that the rangers and the reserve management team can track what they are eating, how often they are eating, and where they are roaming, so that they can accurately decide how many cheetahs can live within the property. After visiting the boma, we drove to the land rehab site, where my reed project took place. Peter was very impressed with the work we had done, and insisted we continue our hard work. Tonight’s soccer game should be a great one… Spain versus Germany is going to be a battle!
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