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Tales From The Giraffe Pan

26th April 2006

And the cat came back,

Well, caracal anyway. They used to be much more common when I was younger, but then our nearest neighbour used to be some 30 km's away. Now our neighbours are only 7 km's away and there are many more cattle posts in between. Much higher density of people must have an adverse effect on the wildlife, so you can imagine my surprise, and delight, when the caracal comes visiting.

Other visitors this past week have been puff adders. Lots of them. Had to take one out of the house, Steve Irwin style. I think, as he gets more popular, more people are going to get bitten, he makes it look too easy.

Because we had such a mild wet summer very few snakes were seen, now summer's almost over. No mambas though. Thank Gawd. Still it does seem to be much warmer, chameleons are out in force, they have been a bit conspicuous in their absence, but not now. Monitor lizards are having a good year, there is even one living in my house, between the top of the wall and the roof, he seems to like the bathroom at night but during the day he can be found sunning himself on the roof of the kitchen.

Oh by the way remember the camera trap I mentioned well, we looked at the memory card the other day. Great pictures of Brown Hyena and Jackals. We actually caught the hyena as it was scent marking the meat. Not the most attractive thing to see but from a research point of view it must be fascinating. Road kill guy seemed excited anyway. Not much else though. Interesting to see what goes on at night around this place.

Gotta go, they are out collecting veldt foods and we'll have to prepare them for lunch.

Kahn/a.

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