Tuesday, April 19, 2005

The tree-climbing rhino protectors

I really can't leave it like that now, can I? Here's a more positive story about Tanzania - and it's Selous again:

"As rhinos have weak eyesight, they would not spot me, but the real challenge would be to bypass their acute sense of smell. So I solved this problem by rubbing fresh elephant dung on my body and daily refreshed this fragrance."

On his first tree stake out, Mr Alpers found the elephant dung did not fool a sharp-sighted leopard who stalked him for several hours but was unable to reach his living area of suspended fishing nets. - again from the BBC

That's more like it.

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