Today I was witness to a sight that would not be out of place in an exhibition of modern art. A leopard had killed an impala before dragging it up into a tree so that she might enjoy her meal in peace. The carcass had then fallen so that its head was trapped between two [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Collateral Damage, by Toby Aisbitt
After the recent poaching the group that he had been travelling with scattered. They hid in nearby thicket for a day before journeying by night into the centre of the reserve. This is away from the water of the swamps and the resulting vegetation that they had been reliant on for the past couple of [...]
A Poachers Curse, by Toby Aisbitt
This morning we went to the edge of the park to record the details of a poached elephant. It was a haunting sight to see. Rather than falling on his side he had collapsed forward onto his chest. This made him seem more lifelike and impressive in size. Some view this as a sign of [...]
My first postmortem
Today I witnessed something I never dreamt I would ever see, an elephant Postmortem. We travelled on foot into the bush were a local village had reported a dead elephant. One of the rangers from the area had been watching him for several days. The young bull had been getting steadily weaker and was finally [...]
A tyre amongst friends, by Toby Aisbitt
Today we had the misfortune of getting a puncture in what can only be described as an inconvenient place. On the one side were buffalo, on the other elephants. It was only David and myself in the car so following his lead we began to change the tyre. Luckily the elephants that we were next [...]
