A Mystery Solved

There are thousands, literally thousands, of termite mounds around the reserve. Small and rounded, they lie only a few feet from each other and cover the plains. I dare not think how many termites there must be here. As we have travelled around I occasionally see what looks like an animal pellet about the size of a golf ball balanced on the top of some of the mounds. Was it, I wondered some practical joke by the rangers? Or even something left by poacher patrols to send messages to each other? Yesterday I asked Luke about it and, once we had seen one for him to know what I was talking about, he explained it was from a baboon. It seems that when they squat down to 'do the business' they like to be perched on something higher than the surrounding ground and a handy termite mound fits the bill perfectly.