“It’s like a science class,” Jeb said, while he and some other children were about to dissect a fish that a fisherman had given them on the shores of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. “Yeah, a fun science class,” said another boy, Evan, 13, who was staying with his family at the same hotel we were. [...]
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Into the Wild
Saturday, March 20th, 2010HI it’s me Jeb. I am in France now. It’s fun. Anyway now I will tell you about some of my favorite wild life.
The Serengeti: Finding My Favorite Cat
Thursday, March 18th, 2010The Serengeti. It’s one of those mythical African names. Like Kilimanjaro and Maasai. Serengeti is Swahilia for “endless plain,” and that pretty much says it all. A stretch of grassland the size of Connecticut that spreads out as far as the eye can see, occasionally interrupted by a kopje (a gathering of rocks) or a [...]
Lions and Rhinos and Cheetahs. Oh My!
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010We felt it was going to be a good day when the first thing we saw at 6:30 in the morning was a hyena walking up the hill, her belly swollen from the night’s kill. We KNEW it was going to be a good day when a few minutes later we saw a lioness walking [...]
Morning with the Bushmen
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010March 11, 2010 Early morning. 5am. We woke up at 5 in the morning and drove to the Bushmen’s village. When we got there they were just waking up. We helped start a fire and watched them make arrows. They made arrows by heating them in the fire to soften them so they could straiten [...]
