Just. Two. Chromosomes.
Just two chromosomes separate primates from man. I look at this, and feel it could be less. Amboseli National Park. Golden baboon.…
"Good places I have eaten lunch."
I have a photo album called “Good places I have eaten lunch.” Clearly, this hippo pool in the Masai Mara reserve will be in it. But it was breakfast, and it was fantastic. Hippos are way more massive when you see them in their environment. I keep…
I dub thee, Monkeys World
Lydiah, Wesley and the rest of the Songoli/Jiveti household gave me the honor and responsibility of naming their farm cat — a sort of cranky-faced-looking feline who was super friendly and will eat anything and I mean anything like bread and avocad…
Cats. Do they move backwards?
!It is funny that American cats can It It is funny that American cats can move backwards and Kenyan cats cannot. this is something I discovered. Cats cannot move backward. If you have a cat that is moving backwards, then it Or we trained it. This a…
Staredown in western remote Kenya
You have stare downs. With cows. I think she won. This is Hardley, with whom I stay, explaining how the skulls are used during Tiriki circumcision ceremonies, which are held every 5 years. I'd never get into that one; definitely. This is at th…
Caution: Stray piranha on board!
We are driving along in the tuk-tuk ... the small covered, wooden boats so prevlant in the Amazon, with a small outboard motor and put-putting along. We are on the Amazon, four hours from the nearest port, of Nauta, looking for pink dolphins that…
New life at Machu Picchu (on CNN)
I posted a photo on CNN's Travel Photo of the Day, from Machu Picchu on the winter solstice, June 21. Click here to see it on CNN [http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1148796] and read the description, and let's garner some views and "fav…
Holy hot luck!
Just landed a ticket from Managua to Lima round trip for $600 with just 2 days before take-off ... not sure how, but prices actually went down. After Macchu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco and the salt flats of Bolivia,I am returning to Iquitos, Peru…
I can lift 50 times my weight!
We went on a hike to La Pita waterfall today and just across a creek crossing ran into a worker line of leaf-cutter ants, marching across the trail balancing a piece of leaf on their backs. Single file, they can carry 50x their body weight on thei…