Van Helsing in 2011 during better days. Photo by KMP visitor Laura Salamone-Maiden
Habituation group Tswana is now comfortable enough with project volunteers to be dyed and therefore identifiable for data collection. Significant gains have been made in Elrond Council’s habituation as well and now volunteers are able to follow the group for entire morning sessions.
Long-time project favorite, the Van Helsing group, is now gone with the loss of its two remaining adult females due to TB. This beloved group was first seen in February 2008. Van Helsing once numbering some 35 individuals, has been ravaged over the years by this devastating disease, ultimately to its demise.
Van Helsing dominant female Egg wearing a mini camera for the 2017 Animals With Cameras shoot. Photo by KMP visitor Laura Salamone-Maiden
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