Baboons on baboons on baboons

Yesterday we had day 2 in Lake Manyara National Park but the main focus was baboon watching. We were supposed to watch one troop for two and a half hours and write down behaviors so we could write a paper about it. The troops we watched liked to run away from us so most of hour time was spent driving around looking for the baboons. Which was fine with me because we got to see a Jackel with a kill, a buffalo up close, and another elephant standing in the middle of the road not caring about the line of jeeps behind it. We only had about an hour and a half of baboons watching but it was still pretty interesting.

The cows here have a huge  bump on their back and at first I thought they all just had an iodine deficiency and it was a goiter, but it turns out that they are a camel type of cow and the bump is a way for them to store water in the heat. I think its awesome that they have adapted like that.

One really nice thing about camp is that if you are willing to learn some one is willing to teach you. Even the guards and the drivers always are trying to teach everyone different swahili words which is awesome. And if you get i a car with a professor they stio every 5 minutes to show you a different plant or bird so we are all learning a lot more then was it just in our books. 

As always the weather is beautiful and I try not to spend more then 5 minutes inside at a time. This morning we we had class outside on the side of a mountain and it was an incredible view. Now people are sitting outside working on our papers for the rest of the day!