Flowers blossom, spring time
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 07 2008 | By: elephantsofbotswana
It’s now spring here in the Delta and the plants are turning green. It’s finally getting warm after the cold winter months. The sausage trees are coming into bloom and look beautiful while attracting the impalas, giraffes etc. However, the impalas are in great danger as the leopards will probably wait for them on these sausage trees and pounce on them unnoticed. Each season brings in the new and out with the old and different things for the species of the Okavango Delta, however life goes on. Elephants, especially males, are seen occasionally shaking the Fan Palms to enjoy the nuts, what a good strategy. Jackal berry fruits also are ripe and elephants move from one tree to another. These fruits are palatable even to human beings. The jackal berry fruit is delicious a sweet fruit in the middle of life in the delta. On a nice day we can rest by a tree and pick a few of these fruits. Life in the bush is fascinating.
The flood water is also quickly drying and sinking into the thick sands of the Kalahari. The changing face of theOkavango.
By Mphoeng Ofithile
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Hi, I am Kate Evans, or more commonly known as Elephant Kate. I am a zoologist whose great love is elephants. Since 2002 I have been living my dream by researching elephants in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. I decided I was going to be an elephant researcher when I was seven. I was living in Asia at the time and visited the elephant orphanage in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It was there that I made up my mind I was going to work for these majestic and intelligent animals. I made a promise to an elephant and we all know an elephant never forgets!!!! It took me 20 years to finally realise my dream and start my life as an elephant researcher. It was 20 years well spent and now I have to pinch myself most days to make sure it is true and I am living my dream.
I now head up a team who are researching the elephants and trying to work out the social and ecological needs of the largest remaining population of the African elephant. From time to time, other team members will add their thoughts and experiences. I love sharing my experiences - so I hope that this blog is a medium through which you will be able to join the elephants and I on our adventures in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. -
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