Author: Evi

The April 2017 Life History files are uploaded.

Some of the most important events:

• The short-lived Annals of History group disintegrated, probably because the two males left the female.
• At Lazuli, four females gave birth, but only the last litter, Cafrine’s, survived.
• Pandora’s dominant female Elsa succumbed to TB; the entire group shows TB signs.
• Habituation at Storm Troopers and Ubuntu is progressing well.
• An intense storm brought a lot of rain, very welcome now at the end of the rainy season.

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The March 2017 Life History files are uploaded.

Some of the most important events:

• Five pups of Swift’s litter have emerged at Whiskers around mid March. All of them are doing well.
• The biggest surprise are Storm Troopers (SO), a new group found in a chance encounter in March, with good old Tigi (VRRM113, dominant male at Ewoks until early 2016), two ex-Ewoks males Wolfie and Voldemort (Tigi’s grandson), two wild females and an unknown number of pups.
• The Nematoads disintegrated; both remaining females died in March; surviving dominant male Rum Tum Tugger is not collared.
• Rainfalls slowed down considerably, and the first smell of winter is in the air – with 4°C/39°F on 26th March!

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The February 2017 Life History files are uploaded.

Some of the most important events:

• Swift, at Whiskers, has given birth on February 22nd.
• Lazuli has seen just another dominance change, after dominant female Elise the Great (VLF219) disappeared. Minnie (VLF222) is her successor.
• Both Drachentöter (VLM189, also known as Stumpy due to his stumpy tail – one of the most successful rovers of the past years who stayed in 6 groups during his lifetime) and Chewbacca (JXM077, the last remaining member of the “Friends” litter) succumbed to TB. Roving male Genie (VJXM035) was killed in an IGI with Rascals.
• Furthermore, the Ewoks group disintegrated with the death of the last remaining female Edzna (two roving males remain, but they are not collared).
• There are two new subgroups: “Annals of History” (AH, with two Baobab females) and TB-or-not-TB (TN), formed by Jaxx evictee Sheena and four roving males of diverse origins, including Whisker’s K-Quob.
• The rains continued in February – the KMP received more rain in January and February 2017 than in the entire year 2016!

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