The action centred around a large swampy area which the rhinos like to visit. Sarah and her team first found some footprints and a rhino trail up on a ridge above the swamp.
Damp mud on a bamboo stem indicated that the rhino may have been here quite recently!
They followed the tracks and signs until they found the spot where the rhino had slid into the wallow.
We found the dung amongst the tree ferns, in a boggy area next to a small stream. The gleaming heap is in the foreground:
Back up on the nearby rattan covered ridges, Chevy also found two old piles of dung, this one is almost gone:
That makes 18 piles of rhino dung found during the first phase of the survey, here’s hoping for more in 2010!
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Hello Sarah and Simon
ReplyDeleteThank you for your blog - you've made me quite excited about rhino poo. Looking forward to the next tu- er, post.
By the way, while you are looking for rhinos, could you please take a photograph of a saola? That would be awesome. I'm sure you're seeing plenty of them out and about while the rhinos are eluding you.
Cheers!
Nathan