Meerkats / gostujoce pero

Our last ten months were spent in the Kalahari Desert working for the Kalahari meerkat project. We earned our keep by assisting several people who were researching communication and cooperation in meerkats and the slender mongoose. There were lots of different groups of meerkats on the farm and each individual could be recognised from a dye mark somewhere on its body. Everyday at around 5am we would sit and wait at the burrow for the meerkats to wake up, then begin the challenge of trying to weigh them. The meerkats were weighed three times a day in the morning, at lunch and in evening, and were convinced into the scales box with egg and water. The remainder of the field sessions were spent following the group for up to three hours collecting information on their every movement such as who is on guard, what they are eating and who is fighting who. A day in the life of meerkat is an exciting one!

After ten long months spent on a very isolated farm we decided that enough was enough and that we should go travelling and see more of Africa. Many many hours and lots of buses later we made it through Namibia and up to Victoria Falls in Zambia. Back down into Botswana to see lots of hippos and elephants in Chobe and then down to Maun where we met Boris, Joseph and the one with malaria. Today Nicola is very very hungover, which she is balming entirely on Boris.

Gasilci. Thank U Nicola&Zoe for the post.

Twitter style:
- Grega "killed the beast"
- Predvceraj krasen vecer z extra kulinaricno izkusnjo v poplavljenem Game kempu
- Smo v Namibiji, a neuradno...cez 10min nazaj na mejo, kako do vize po neki drugi poti,
ker za nas issue-ajo le v Gaborone (capital), ki je 700+km cez Kalahari in neke crtkane ceste ne obetajo. Torej, danes Windhoek ali Namibija ne sploh.
- Josko ustimal fejst kofe
- Objava "na crno" s kota lokalne recepcije