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My Rhinoceros Teacher

7/2/2025

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As dawn yawns and stretches over the African savanna, a line of cars waits impatiently at the wooden gate of Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp. I join the tail end in my tiny white rental car, exhausted from an annual weeklong scientific conference (the Savanna Science Network Meeting in Kruger National Park), but determined to make the most of my trip to South Africa.

​This year, I am on a mission. I'm going to see a rhino.

Read more at the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Blogs from the Field: 
https://wildlife.cornell.edu/blog/my-rhinoceros-teacher
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  • home
  • about
  • research =
    • 🐾 simulating african elephant movements
    • 🐾 mapping water for elephants
    • antelope behaviors on a changing landscape
    • introduction to african savannas
  • outreach =
    • media
    • research talks
    • lesson plans & tutorials
    • teaching statement
    • nsf grfp advice
    • science writing
    • 🐾 skype a scientist
  • perspectives =
    • decolonizing ecology series >
      • decolonizing my science
      • land-grab universities
      • going beyond land acknowledgement
      • where i live & work
    • those who made me
    • donating well
    • asexuality, imposter syndrome, and belonging
    • reading lists
  • art =
    • support small artists
    • short stories
    • poetry
    • photography
    • portraits
  • blog
  • contact