Keepers' Diaries, June 2008

Voi Reintegration Unit

By June, in Tsavo one can be sure that there will be no more rain until October or November, so the long dry season has now taken hold, with the orphans, like their wild counterparts, having to travel further afield in search of food. The two orphan groups, (that of Emily and that of Natumi) have now joined up, and this month were spotted on 11th June feeding near a small hill on the Southern Side of Mazinga hill, again on the 17th and l9th drinking from leakage on the main Mombasa pipeline when they had a teenaged wild bull with them, the size of Emily. The orphans have not been back to the Voi Stockades for the entire month.