Croze on vocalisations, Acacias

From: Harvey Croze <hcroze@karurafriends.org>

Subject: Re: Karura Mammals

Date: 4 September 2015 08:35:53 GMT+3

Hi, All,

Agree with Chantal, quite sure that we have O. garnetti. Couldn’t see (hear) any hyrax vocalisations at Wildsolutions, but there’s a hyrax recording at the bottom of this page: http://ugallaprimateproject.com/projects/bioacoustics.  And as Tom says, the long, descending, rattling shriek of Dendrohyrax, as I now recall from the Aberdares and Mt. Kenya, is hard to miss and quite distinct from the bushbaby.

Jury still out on senegalensis. No xanthophloea, except maybe an odd eratic. The main Acacias are kirkii (which might substitute as a fever tree for a home-hunting lesser), the odd seyal var.?? on the edge of vleis, and a few brevispica in the dryer north part of the forest.

And yes, there will certainly be big Eucalypts left over in the foreseeable future. One along the Gitathuru river has what we believe is a crowned eagle’s nest (the other confirmed crowned’s nest is in a Newtonia along the Karura River).  Members of the G-group of re-introduced black-and-whites are constantly looking over their shoulders!

Onward, upward!