Kenya and Tanzania

From February to May I'll be studying abroad in East Africa. The work will be exciting, and the exploring unforgettable, but unfortunately I won't be able to keep in touch with everyone on a regular basis. I'll be out with the monkeys, giraffes, elephants and many others...and for that reason I'll have very limited phone and internet access. So while I'm away, feel free to follow my blog, and read about what I'm up to!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

new pictures

Last week for our community service day we went to an orphanage about 15 minutes from our camp. We helped them paint a mural on this courtyard wall. While some of us painted, everyone else played with the kids for the day. It was a lot of fun, and the kids were really cute. I have a lot more pictures that I will hopefully upload soon.
Half way through the mural.

The finished wall!
A group of us with some of the kids in front of the finished mural at the orphanage.

I took this picture and the next three today while we were out collecting data for our directed research project. We have seen this baboon three of the four days we have gone out. He only walks on those two legs, and we think it is because there is something wrong with his wrists. We have never seen him straighten out his arms, and he walks very well, so he has probably been moving around like that for a long time. We call him bipede or hominid. Luckily the rest of his troop treats him normally, and he's not excluded or anything like that.

A mom with her baby. Our professor told us this infant is only a few days old.

Two infants wrestling.

An infant with mom and dad.

Elephant in Lake Manyara National Park.

A very small baby zebra. He was so young that he still had fur.

1 comment:

  1. Jen!

    These pictures are fabulous. I love looking at them!! Miss you :)

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