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DISPATCH 06: More from Il Naibir camp

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Everyone is in camp now and the team are finding many fossils. These include the bones or pieces of bones from fossil monkeys and baboons and also a large number of carnivores. There are also many isolated teeth which are quite beautiful.
Unfortunately as was expected, there has been significant damage to the fossils from the exposures closest to the Il Naibir laga, which is frequented by large numbers of livestock throughout much of the year, illegally grazing in the Sibiloi National Park. On this occasion they are not however present.

A beautifully preserved carnivore mandible, probably belonging to a hyaena was collected this week from a small hill rich with additional carnivore and monkey remains. A sieve was put in here to recover as much of this as possible. It has had all its teeth knocked out by hundreds of little goat hooves but otherwise it is mostly intact. As usual fossils are recorded in the field with GPS fixes using the hand held computers and the collected specimens are brought into camp for preparation, photographing and packing in the afternoons, and the specimens and images are entered daily into the database on the laptop.

The camp is shaded and peaceful, with fabulous morning choruses with the calls of vulturine guinea fowls, yellow necked spur fowls and go- away birds. We have a fat tailed sheep who was spared the freezer for a few weeks and is quite a character. He particularly likes the smell and taste of bread and enjoys a good back scratch under the dining table, occasionally involving himself in ball games in the sand river in the evenings with little Seiyia.

 

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