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June 30, 2012
A Day at the Museum
I spent Thursday at the university museum in Dakar collecting samples of bone from their archived collection of West African manatee skulls that date back to the 1940's. This was only allowed after several meetings and much discussion with the museum's curator (who I've promised...Read More
June 26, 2012
Jonathan’s return to Gabon and Victor update
I'm very happy to report that Puerto Rican manatee Masters student Jonathan Perez-Rivera has returned to Gabon to continue his work with Victor! Jonathan arrived back in Gabon several weeks ago, but this has been in the works for several months, because it's now time...Read More
June 24, 2012
Seagrass Watch article
Check out the latest issue of Seagrass Watch magazine, which focuses on manatees and dugongs and includes an article I wrote on West African manatees (there's also a page about Victor!). Perfect beach reading for summer! :-)...Read More
June 23, 2012
Eastern Lac de Guiers
For the last part of our eastern Senegal trip, we were determined to drive down the eastern side of Lac de Guiers, which we had started when our car originally broke down several weeks ago. Our plan was drive back to Richard-Toll to meet Niaga,...Read More
June 19, 2012
Manatee killed in Niger
I received news from my colleague Boureima Boubacar in Niger that an adult female manatee was killed by a hunter on June 11 in Niamey, the capital. Several days before, a group of approximately 6 manatees had been seen in the area and from the...Read More
June 17, 2012
Following the Manatee Trail
Back in 2009 I tagged three manatees in the Senegal River as part of a collaborative study with my colleagues from CBD- Habitat (a Spanish NGO) and Oceanium Dakar (a Senegalese NGO). You can see my original post about it here. It was the first time West...Read More
June 11, 2012
A few more discoveries in Navel
Yesterday afternoon we walked along part of the Navel tributary to see if we could spot the live manatee that had been reported there, but we didn't see it. We met up with the same farmer I met the day before, but he hadn't seen...Read More
June 10, 2012
Mummified Manatee on a Mountain
Now there's something I never thought I'd see. Can you find the manatee in this picture? We drove to Kanel this morning and met up with Moutar, a local fisherman and our manatee contact, who has monitored the manatee situation here for many years. He took us...Read More
June 9, 2012
Made It to Matam!
It felt like getting to Matam was one of the hardest things I've done in a long time. After 3 weeks of endless car repairs, we were finally ready to try again to get to eastern Senegal for manatee fieldwork. Tomas and I left Dakar very early...Read More
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