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- June 27 [1967] Lake Manyara National Park.
For game counts + Biomass East African Wildlife Vol. [Volume] 3
Watson + Turner. Area 30 sq [square] miles
Present Numbers: Elephant 320, Buffalo 1000 [+/-], giraffe 52.
Lion 53 Impala 300 [+/-] Rhino [Rhinoceros] 40 [+/-] Bush Buck few
Water buck few.
This seems to be a well organized small park with an amazing
biomass. In spite of the large game herds the vegetation seems to be
in reasonable condition. There are a number of damaged acacias
but I would not say that anything more than say 2% have been
killed. Reproduction, however, is very light. It seems to be that
Acacia lahai may be an obligate pioneer. Certainly the only young
trees I have seen have been in clearings and along the forest
edge.
Met Ian Hamilton a student of [Nikolaas] Tinbergen's. He is here
for two years studying elephant. This evening 4 of us in
Ian's Land Rover went out to see his beasts. Frankly I found
the experience somewhat nerve wracking. He drove into the open
scrub right amongst the feeding herds. We were at times not
more than 30' [feet] in any direction from a great assortment of
cows + young. He can now recognize about 100 of them by
distinctive tusk characteristics or tears in the ears. While we
watched they ate constantly from various trees + shrubs. They seemed
especially to favour one of the palms. They chopped off whole fronds
+ chewed them sideways through the mouth. One old girl with a
small calf rushed at us for a short distance with her trunk
raised, ears out + a great trumpeting. It certainly stimulates
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