Adventure Expedition

21/06/2017

Experience African culture

11/07/2016

hotel around the beach

11/07/2016

Unbroken Caldera in the World Ngorongoro

11/07/2016

elephant nose

14/12/2015

29/04/2015

From the top of a kopjes, a prey and danger can be spot by this cheetah

28/04/2015

my client in a tent at nguchiro campsite serengeti

08/03/2015

FROGS vs. TOADS

Many people don’t know the difference between frogs and toads. They are quite different animals, although they belong to the same animal group.

GET DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FROGS AND TOADS

Frogs:

Need to live near water

Have smooth, moist skin that makes them look “slimy”.

Have a narrow body

Have higher, rounder, bulgier eyes

Have longer hind legs

Take long high jumps

Have many predators

Toads:

Do not need to live near water to survive

Have rough, dry, bumpy skin

Have a wider body

Have lower, football shaped eyes

Have shorter, less powerful hind legs

Will run or take small hops rather than jump

Do not have many predators. Toad’s skin lets out a bitter taste and smell that burns the eyes and nostrils of its predators, much like a skunk does.

And neither frogs nor toads will give you warts! That is just a myth.

05/02/2015

Dust is a collection of microscopic particles of material. Dust is heavy enough to see and light enough to be carried by the wind.

Dust can be made up of pollen, bacteria, smoke, ash, salt crystals from the ocean, and small bits of dirt or rock, including sand. Dust can also contain tiny fragments of human and animal skin cells, pollution, and hair.

When its windy outside, you can see dust particles blowing through the atmosphere. Large amounts of dust that are carried through the atmosphere by strong winds are called dust storms. Dust storms mostly occur in dry, open areas.

The Sahara Desert in Africa has many dust storms. Most Sahara dust is made of sand. Dust storms in the Sahara Desert can blow a wall of dust as high as one mile off the ground. Dust storms can make it very difficult to see and breathe.

In 1983, a dust storm covered the city of Melbourne, Australia. The deserts of Australia were experiencing drought, so sand and soil were loose. The dry conditions allowed about 50,000 tons of material to erode as dust. Melbourne had more than 1,000 tons of dust dumped on it. The dust caused so much damage that it took years of work and millions of dollars to repair.

In some areas, windblown dust settles into deposits called loess. Loess is a type of sediment that is loose and fragmented. It can be many meters deep. Loess often develops into fertile soil for agriculture because it retains water, allows many different plants to take root, and has abundant nutrients.

12/12/2014

Ecologist must know this....

27/11/2014

This is how RHINO live

Both black and white rhinoceroses are actually gray. They are different not in color but in lip shape. The black rhino has a pointed upper lip, while its white relative has a squared lip. The difference in lip shape is related to the animals' diets. Black rhinos are browsers that get most of their sustenance from eating trees and bushes. They use their lips to pluck leaves and fruit from the branches. White rhinos graze on grasses, walking with their enormous heads and squared lips lowered to the ground.
Except for females and their offspring, black rhinos are solitary. Females reproduce only every two and a half to five years. Their single calf does not live on its own until it is about three years old.
Black rhinos feed at night and during the gloaming hours of dawn and dusk. Under the hot African sun, they take cover by lying in the shade. Rhinos are also wallowers. They often find a suitable water hole and roll in its mud, coating their skin with a natural bug repellent and sun block.
Rhinos have sharp hearing and a keen sense of smell. They may find one another by following the trail of scent each enormous animal leaves behind it on the landscape.
Black rhinos boast two horns, the foremost more prominent than the other. Rhino horns grow as much as three inches (eight centimeters) a year, and have been known to grow up to five feet (one and a half meters) long. Females use their horns to protect their young, while males use them to battle attackers.

27/10/2014

Ecologically the
Landscape ecology deals with spatial distribution, patterns, and behaviors across large geographical areas. Landscape ecologists might study the impact of development on a particular species of native grass in a specific area. One type of grass may be resistant to chemicals, for example, indicating the area would be ideal for agricultural development.

Population ecology studies the rise and fall in the number of a species. A population ecologist may compare the population of a species near a new food source to a population that lacks access to that food source. The new food source may increase the numbers of the species, or, if the food source is contaminated, reduce it.

Behavioral ecology studies the different ways organisms evolve and adapt to changes in their habitat. Behavioral ecologists often study mating patterns, or what characteristics male and female animals prefer when seeking to reproduce. Behavioral ecologists study bird songs or plumage as they relate to mating patterns, for example.

When ecologists study a particular animal, they examine what the animals food sources are, how it reproduces, what its predators might be, and the characteristics of its habitat. They also study how the animal lives in that habitat, including migrations, shelter, population, and how the species interacts with other animals and plants in its habitat.