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To be honest, like most people, I would not have thought of a quick trip to Africa when planning for a vacation. By quick I mean eight days with my feet actually on African soil. Add three days to get there and back and you have 11 days away.
My two other trips to Africa were both a month in duration. So, I will admit that I viewed this as a bit of an experiment to see if the long travel time between Vancouver and Africa would be outweighed by my experiences. Most of the people I mentioned this trip to determined that I was a bit crazy. No one is used to hearing the words quick and Africa in the same sentence. It was pointed out to me that a more proper use of the term would be to say "I am off for a quick trip to Kelowna."
Well I just recently returned from my "quick trip" to Africa and I am glad to say that it was a resounding success. One of the keys to making this short long-distance holiday work was finding an itinerary that covered many places that were not too far apart. The other was selecting Kenya.
Kenya is an amazing little country with unbelievable wildlife-viewing opportunities, stunning geographical variation and unique people. My brain was processing so much visual information that after the third day out of Nairobi, it already felt like a week, and by the end of the safari, it easily felt more like two weeks instead of just eight days.
My trip was at the end of May and considered a low season safari. It started in Nairobi and headed to Mount Kenya, then Lake Nakuru, then Lake Naivasha, and finally the Masai Mara. For anyone's first trip to Kenya, this is a great route because it will introduce you to many of the highlights of this truly diverse country. Low season safaris offer attractive pricing and fewer visitors and vehicles in the national parks. The trade-off is that you are travelling during the rainy season, but that does not necessarily mean you will get rained on. Luckily on this trip the rains only appeared on the second last day and then only in quick outbursts. Also be warned, the roads outside of Nairobi are horrific at best, but they are part of the adventure and the only way to really see the day-to-day working of this country and its people.
Mount Kenya is the second-highest mountain in Africa and it is said if you see the actual summit, you will live an extra 10 years. Lake Nakuru boasts the largest accumulation of flamingos (as in millions), and like the Masai Mara, Nakuru offers the opportunity to see all of the big five -- elephant, Cape buffalo, rhino, leopard and lion. Lake Naivasha is famous for its hippo population with over 1,000 animals calling the lake home. Other inhabitants include pelicans, herons, egrets and waterbucks. The Masai Mara is Kenya's prize jewel. It forms the northern tip of Tanzania's Serengeti Plain and is accentuated by amazing vistas and golden savannah, plus an abundance of wildlife experiences just waiting to be discovered.
Now this may sound wonderful, and it was, but I am not a good sleeper on airplanes, so there is a price to pay: two nine-hour flights each way with many hours in a European airport. I had to rely on constant catnapping until I could hit a bed in Nairobi. However, I am pleased to have just discovered that leaving Vancouver in the early morning and going through Toronto you can actually eliminate one overnight on a plane as you land in Nairobi in the evening instead of the next morning.
One thing I noticed about lodge safaris is that it is similar to being on a cruise ship.
The buffet breakfasts, lunches and dinners become a bit overwhelming. I know, you don't have to eat everything, but it takes your brain and stomach a few days to realize this fact. So, next time I feel like a quick getaway, I will not hesitate to head back to Kenya.
Christopher Clark is a member of the Serengeti Design Group of Vancouver.
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"There is no voice, however famed, that can attune itself to the lonely corners of the heart, as the sigh of the wind through the pines when tired eyes are closing after a day on the trail. There is no chorus sweeter than the little birds in the early northern dawn... " - Old Indian Trails Expedition of 1907, Mary T. S. Schäffer
As sighing winds grow colder and the little birds enjoy later dawns, Jasper shifts from summer's high-energy activities to autumn's quieter contemplation.
September and early October offer lots to do -- rafting, horseback riding, hiking. Miette Hot Springs and Jasper Tramway are open until Thanksgiving, as is the golf course at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. The road to Mt. Edith Cavell closes at the end of October.
The Columbia Icefields Chalet closes at the same time, while a drive along the spectacular Icefields Parkway can be enjoyed all year, snow conditions permitting.
Around Jasper, solitude is broken by the eerie bugling of elk in rut, the squawks and clicks of the ravens and the howl of coyotes or wolves. Mountain sheep may be seen on the sides of the highway at natural salt licks, but they will soon head to higher elevations.
The calls of waterbirds such as loons, geese, grebes and ducks fade away as they fly off to warmer climes, while the hummingbirds and osprey have already left on their long migrations to California or Mexico.
In town, the Jasper Activity Centre and adjoining Aquatic Centre offer exercise enthusiasts a range of indoor activities, including a climbing wall and skating arena.
Jasper's lively local art scene features works ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde. A wide selection may be seen daily in the Brushfire Gallery at the old fire hall until Thanksgiving. For two weeks in November, Upcycle, an exhibition of art from recycled materials, will be featured.
History buffs will find the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum open year-round while, on the way to Miette Hot Springs, visitors may follow a self-guided interpretive trail through the remains of the Pocahontas Coal Mine.
This year, local history celebrates Mary Schäffer, a privileged Pennsylvania woman who was known as Yahe-Weha or Mountain Woman to the Stoney Indians. A hundred years ago, Mary "discovered" one of Jasper's major attractions, Maligne Lake.
Having heard stories of the beautiful turquoise alpine water the Stoney Indians knew as Chaba Imne (Beaver Lake), Mary's party of six set out on horseback from Lake Louise to find it, following a sketchy map drawn by her native friend Sampson Beaver.
A month later, after almost giving up on the quest, guide Sid Unwin spotted the lake from an 8,750-foot peak near camp and hurried back to relate news of the discovery to Mary and her friends.
The group was in awe of the lake's beauty and set about exploring it on a hand-hewn raft. But Mary chose to name it Maligne (French for wicked) after the river that empties it -- a name earned when Belgian Jesuit missionary Pierre-Jean de Smet made a nasty crossing on horseback around 1845.
In 1911, Mary Schäffer returned to undertake a detailed exploration of the lake and its environs and, seeing tourism as a means to educate the public and to protect the wilderness she loved, suggested the lake needed a steamboat concession!
In 1928, mountaineer Curly Phillips finished The Leah, Maligne Lake's first tour boat. Today, visitors can discover the Canadian Rockies' largest lake from the comfort of one of several glass-enclosed, heated cruise boats and hear about its first tourist, Mary Schäffer, from enthusiastic young guides.
Maligne Lake's cruises, canoe rentals and fishing will continue until the lake freezes, usually in October, but the road is open all winter to provide trail access for cross-country skiers and snowshoers.
In the Maligne Valley, autumn's vista is of snowy peaks and rocky shoulders splashed with the brilliance of aspens turning yellow and Medicine Lake empties like a bathtub into underground streams as meltwater-fed creeks dry up.
Closer to town, Maligne Canyon, 50 metres at its deepest point, is a spectacular attraction no matter the season. This year, trail steps and fences have been upgraded, making an autumn walk safer and more comfortable. Come winter, guided walks into the canyon on its frozen floor reveal intensely blue icefalls overhead as water forced from cracks in the canyon walls freezes.
Tourist packages available in September include "Cruise and Snooze" offering two adults and two children (ages six to 12) two nights' accommodation at the Jasper Inn and a Maligne Lake boat tour, while the "Icefields Parkway Overnight Adventure" offers a room for two overlooking majestic Athabasca Glacier, an Ice Explorer ride and breakfast vouchers.
November marks the area's transition to a winter wonderland. Athabasca and Sunwapta Falls present unique ice sculptures to enthusiastic photographers, Lac Beauvert and Pyramid Lake are cleared for skating and ski hills and trails open for a new season.
"Christmas in November" packages at Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge have been popular for 20 years. Accommodation, meals and presentations to inspire Christmas creativity are included.
Not long after, winter enthusiasts will arrive and the area will be caught in brilliant blankets of white until spring.
- Jasper Tourism and Commerce, www.jaspercanadianrockies.com
- Friends of Jasper National Park, www.friendsofjasper.com
- Jasper National Park, www.jaspernationalpark.com
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I don't have any little people who need slippers these days, but when she shared them a second time, I went right on over to Mon Petit Violon and bought a pattern for these two button moccasins, the one strap baby booties, and the baby boy hat. Baby gifts, they're for baby gifts. Not intended for personal use. They're almost cute enough to justify night wakings though. Almost.
My slipper are not the same size. I think for each successful pair, I'll probably have to make 3-4 slippers and find the two that best match! I did pick up a smaller crochet hook and some thinner yarn. It's darn near impossible to work with... but I have a long car ride to work on it this week.


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HBV antiviral associated with progression of chronic kidney disease
The nucleotide analogue tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is associated with mild renal impairment in a minority of patients being treated for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, a study by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has shown.
The territory-wide retrospective cohort study included patients with chronic hepatitis B without treatment (n=2,254) or treated with TDF (n=2,254) or the nucleoside analogue entecavir (n=2,254). The patients were evaluated for chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression, defined as an increase of at least one CKD stage. [Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2018, doi: 10.1111/apt.14945]
The study, which used data from the Clinical Data Analysis and Reporting system (CDARS) of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, showed that after a mean follow-up of 2.4 ± 1.5 years, the rate of CKD progression ≥1 stage was highest among patients who received TDF (31 percent) compared with those who received entecavir (28 percent) or those who did not receive any treatment (25 percent).
The patients' mean baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was 91.3 ± 20.6 mL/min/1.73 m2 in the TDF group, 90.3 ± 19.6 mL/min/1.73 m2 in the entecavir group, and 92.2 ± 20.0 mL/min/1.73 m2 in the untreated group.
"This large-scale study was the first to show TDF treatment significantly increased the risk of CKD progression vs entecavir. Lack of treatment for chronic hepatitis B, however, was also associated with a risk for CKD progression over time," the authors commented. "This is likely because hepatitis B infection is known to cause CKD, such as membranous glomerulonephritis, in some patients." [N Engl J Med 1991;324:1457-1463]
The 5‐year cumulative incidence of CKD progression was significantly higher in the TDF-treated group (48 percent; 95 percent confidence [CI] interval, 45 to 51; p<0.001) vs the entecavir-treated group (43 percent; 95 percent CI, 40 46; p=0.267) and the untreated group (43 percent; 95 percent CI, 39 to 47).
The mean annual change in eGFR vs the untreated cohort was also larger in TDF-treated patients (−0.62 mL/min/1.73 m2; 95 percent CI, −0.98 to −0.27; p=0.001) than in entecavir-treated patients (−0.27 mL/min/1.73 m2; 95 percent CI, −0.63 to 0.09; p=0.144).
"TDF use has been previously demonstrated to cause dose-dependent nephrotoxicity in both animal and human studies. Hence, renal function together with serum phosphate levels should be regularly monitored among patients receiving this treatment," the authors suggested. [Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2008;52:3144-3160]
"Patients treated with TDF who are at risk of developing renal or bone disease should be considered for a switch to entecavir or tenofovir alafenamide [TAF]," they added.
TAF has demonstrated a better renal and bone safety profile compared with TDF. It is more stable than TDF in the plasma and can provide similar efficacy with lower circulating concentration in patients with HBV infection. [Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2017;11:999-1008]
The CUHK group previously demonstrated that exposure to nucleotide analogues compared with nucleoside analogues was associated with an increased risk for hip fractures. [Hepatology 2015;62:684-693]


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Curriculum documents are annually published by the Board to facilitate transaction of up-to-date curricula by the affiliated schools. Schools are supposed to refer to the latest curriculum documents for precise implementation of the curricula.However it has been observed that some schools do not refer to these documents and look for other sources for curriculum updates. Therefore, it is brought to the notice of all the schools affiliated to Board that the curriculum documents 2015 are available at http://www.cbseacademic.in and hard copies are available in CBSE stores at all regional offices of the Board.
The curriculum documents 2015 are applicable to classes IX and XI from the current academic session i.e. 2013-14. However for classes X and XII in session 2013-14, as usual, the curriculum documents 2014 will be applicable. Schools are advised to either procure a copy of these documents from the stores or download a copy from above mentioned website and study these documents minutely and implement the appropriate curriculum for respective years in classes IX, X, XI and XII. Schools are also strongly advised to refer to the CBSE circulars issued from time to time and available on the above mentioned website for the latest update.
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Too Young To Die
(Disputes between physicians and patients over medical care have tended towards resolution in both courts and ethics committees, with each of these bodies ultimately deciding that the informed, competent patient must be the final decision maker)
TYTD wants the internal defibrillator TAKEN OUT. I spent an hour earlier this morning arguing with her about how I would "highly prefer" if she find a way to live with it. She is a young lady and, as stated earlier, too young to die (TYTD). It discharged while she was holding her baby and she nearly dropped the little girl, it scared her, it should. I don't blame her but I know that those wires are the only thing standing between us and her funeral.
I told her I refuse to take it out. I won't even talk about it with my Attending. I refuse. She told me she's having it taken out. Period.
Murder by proxy and the proxy is I. A highly intelligent woman who now decides she would rather not live at all than have to constantly live under the threat of an electrical shock, even if she knows it was an angel in disguise. Is this ethical? Is this what they had in mind?
Tomorrow will come and I will watch TYTD walk out of my CCU, defibrillator free as she requested. And I will know that she will be lucky if I ever watch her being wheeled back in.


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Nancy Silverton's Buttermilk Cake Doughnuts Recipe
And here's the first of that handful of recipes I just told you about. It's for an old-fashioned buttermilk cake doughnut. Cake doughnuts are different from yeast-raised doughnuts in that they get their lift from baking soda and baking powder. Here, Nancy has used a bit of yeast for just a little extra rise. But don't worry, these still have the soft, moist interior you associate with the best cake doughnuts.
Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Cake Doughnuts
- Yield:15 doughnuts and holes
- 1/4 crème fraîche or sour cream
- 3 1/4 cups unbleached pastry flour or unbleached all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon (0.3 ounce) packed fresh yeast or 1 1/8 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- 1 extra-large egg
- 2 extra-large egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- For decorating
- 1/2 cup nonmelting icing sugar or powdered sugar
In a small stainless-steel bowl set over a pot of gently simmering water, heat the crème fraîche until just warm.
Heat the oil to 375°F.
Over a large mixing bowl, sift to combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, nutmeg; make a large well in the center. Place the yeast in the well; pour the crème fraîche over it. Allow it to soften, about 1 minute.
Pour the buttermilk, whole egg, egg yolks, and vanilla extract into the well; whisk together the liquid ingredients. Using one hand, gradually draw in the dry ingredients. The mixture should be fairly smooth before you draw in more flour. Mix until it is completely incorporated and forms a very sticky dough. Wash and dry your hands and dust them with flour.
Sift an even layer of flour onto a work surface. Scrape dough out of bowl onto the surface; sift another layer of flour over dough. Working quickly, pat dough into an even 1/2-inch thickness. Dip cutter in flour and, cutting as closely together as possible, cut out the doughnuts and holes. Place holes and doughnuts on a floured surface. Working quickly, gather scraps of dough together, pat into 1/2-inch thickness, and cut out remaining doughnuts and holes.
Fry doughnuts and holes immediately according to these instructions.
Sift a layer of nonmelting icing sugar or powdered sugar over doughnuts and holes.
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Adjusting to new climatic conditions is key in any expatriation process. Moving to Belarus is no exception.
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Seven-year-old Christopher A. Tinkham-Walck was killed this morning after a fire broke out in his Princeville apartment. Firefighters found the boy on his bed in his upstairs bedroom. Preliminary autopsy results indicate he died of carbon monoxide intoxication. He also was burned over his entire body. Mother and live-in boyfriend, who both smoke, told police they had been drinking earlier in the evening and fell asleep downstairs in the living room. They both sustained third-degree burns to their hands while looking for Christopher. A younger brother, 3, was able to escape.
The smile Christopher Tinkham-Walck seemed to wear permanently on his face was remembered Monday by those whose lives the 7-year-old touched.
"He was good little boy," said the boy's neighbor, Tom Davidson. "He was friendly, happy go-lucky. He had a big smile and would come over here all the time to get cookies."
Tears trickled out of Davidson's eyes Monday morning as he recalled the fiery scene that played out hours earlier at Manor Apartments, his heroic attempt to save the boy and reality that a life filled with promise was cut short.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation Monday night by the State Fire Marshall's Office. Police were still sorting out the details — especially the time frame of events — and whether or not smoking or alcohol played a role in the fire.
About 1 a.m., nearly four dozen members of the Akron-Princeville, Dunlap, Brimfield and Wyoming volunteer fire departments converged on the two-story, four-unit apartment building at 319 S. Edwards St.
The apartment where Tinkham-Walck lived with his mother, Rhonda Walck, her live-in boyfriend, Roger Potter, and his 4-year-old brother had become swallowed by fire, with flames spewing out of the windows, police said.
The two adults and the younger boy ultimately escaped to safety.
Police arriving on the scene tried to get into the apartment to look for Tinkham-Walck, who was reported missing by his mother, but were pushed back by the intense heat and fire.
"There was flames everywhere," said Davidson's roommate, Cheryl Cantwell. "There was no way anybody could have got in there to get him at that time."
Davidson, a former firefighter, also tried to rush past the wall of fire at the front door in an effort to save him.
"I tried to help him," said Davidson, wiping away his tears. "He was my friend. It's a hell of a loss."
Firefighters located Tinkham-Walck lying face down on his bed in his upstairs bedroom. He died of smoke inhalation intoxication and suffered severe burns over his entire body, said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll, referring to preliminary autopsy results.
Walck and Potter, both 27, suffered third-degree burns to their hands and palms while trying to find the boy amid the smoke and flames. Walck was listed in fair condition Monday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Potter was transferred from St. Francis to Memorial Medical Center's burn unit in Springfield for treatment, but was released Monday afternoon.
Both admitted to police to cooking dinner on the stove top about 8:30 p.m., then drinking alcohol and falling asleep about midnight Sunday in the living room. They last saw Tinkham-Walck sleeping in a recliner next to them.
It was Potter who awoke first and found the growing fire in the kitchen and adjoining living room, police said. Walck said there was no working smoke detector in the apartment.
The couple, who both smoke cigarettes, were able to find the younger boy, Justin Tinkham-Walck, and get him to safety. He was treated for minor injuries and released from St. Francis. The boys' father, Bobby Tinkham of Creve Coeur, said the flames were "just inches" from the sleeping child's head when they found him.
At one point during the night — less than an hour before the fire started — Potter left the apartment, went to a neighbor's and played guitar, police said. He left a short time later, saying he was going home to cook something to eat. Not long after, Potter was alerting neighbors of the fire, witnesses said.
Bobby Tinkham said damage to the apartment was so severe, the building would likely be torn down.
"Everything went in the fire," he said.
A kindergartner at Princeville Grade School, Tinkham-Walck's outgoing personality and eagerness to learn was praised by his teacher.
"He was a little fellow with a smile on his face all the time," said Shannon Sutherland. "He was a sweet little young man who was friends with everybody."
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i'm using Intel Macbook Pro 2.4
install 64bit ubuntu via Virtual box, do i need to get the driver for my hardware?
You should install the VirtualBox Guest Additions to get the VM hardware drivers.
Can I install Intel Mac (Mactel) on my iphone? How?
So I installed ubuntu onto my Black MacBook and the last step told me I had to sync the disks, so I clicked on the DiskPartion tool in rEFIt and it told me it didn't need to sync, press any key to continue. But now when I try to go and boot up ubuntu, the penguin in the tux just sits there forever. How can I fix this?
One thing I'm not clear on with rEFIt: when should it be installed?
From OSX, before putting Ubuntu on the second partition? Or go ahead and install the 2nd OS, and then install rEFIt from OSX? From Ubuntu?
I don't use Macs much, so I tried to just install ubuntu and assumed grub would dual boot. But it doesn't. I gather I need something like rEFIt.
Assuming everything is set up right, what will my boot process look like? Will rEFIt take over the function I'm used to grub doing? I.e. letting me choose an OS. Or would I have to do something extra to get at rEFIt, like hold down an ALT key, or something?
I can't find this spelled out anywhere. It's probably so obvious to those who know, it doesn't usually need to be explained!
Best to install refit first so it is there to use. But it can be installed any time provided you have OSX there to do it. You need it.
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The 1D delta potential well $V(x) = -A\delta(x - a)$ always has exactly one bound state. The same is true for the 3D delta potential well $V(\vec{r}) = -A\delta(\vec{r}-\vec{a})$. I can show this for $\ell = 0$, I don't know how to do the calculations otherwise.
So two questions,
Can I conclude that there is only one bound state for the 3D potential well for $\ell \not = 0$? I've seen that the energies of the eigenstates for the hydrogen atom depend only on $n$, but I am wondering whether this is an instance of a more general result?
When $\vec{a} = 0$ and $\ell=0$, there are no normalizable eigenstates. For $\ell \not = 0$, the effective potential in the radial equation becomes large at the origin, can I use this to conclude that there are no bound states when $\vec{a}=0$?


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After a week's worth of partially sleepless nights — waking at midnight, 2 a.m., and 5 a.m. to check on pregnant Emily — we pulled an all-nighter. There's nothing like staying awake all night with a laboring goat to make you feel like a true farmer — especially if you trade off with other farmers to steal catnaps on hay bales, wrapped in a sleeping bag, shivering in a half-awake delirium and listening intently to every noise and breath sound the goat makes.
Starting at about 10 o'clock on Friday night, Emily began to show classic impending labor signs. She started pawing the ground, trying to make a nest. Amber-colored goo — amniotic fluid — began streaming out of her vagina. Emily is normally a sedate, quiet goat, but she became very affectionate and vocal, talking to us and to her stomach, and crying loudly when we left the barn. She flehmened — which is a sexual response found in sheep and goats where they curl back their lips to better smell pheromones. She sniffed the ground. She yawned. She couldn't get comfortable, standing, lying down, and constantly readjusting herself. She chewed on her back, hoofs, and stomach, as though everything in the world was irritating her. She licked her stomach like a cat. She seemed to experience occasional mild contractions, her back arching ever so slightly and her tailhead raising.
But she still wasn't pushing, and she wasn't in what goat owners call "heavy labor." Until 5:41 a.m., when quite suddenly she got serious. Inbetween contractions (which were happening every minute or two) she stood up. But when the contractions hit, she lay down, stretched out her legs, stiffened her body, and heaved. Her breathing was also really heavy, almost to the point of grunting.
I was in the kidding stall with her, bracing her legs and watching her vagina for progress–she was opening up a bit, but no sign of a bubble or kid yet. I called to Emmett, fast asleep on the hay bales. He continued to be fast asleep, no matter how loudly I said the word "Emmett."
After a few pushes I climbed out of the kidding stall and tapped him. He was very confused by the whole situation, having been deep in dreams, but leapt out of his sleeping bag and came over to watch. I climbed back in the pen, and could see she was making progress — so I asked Emmett to get Susannah and Austin, our wwoofers who were going to assist with the birth. No sooner had they arrived (also a little groggy and confused), when a bubble appeared… first pulsing in and out with the pushes, then out to stay. Emily screamed a couple of times, the labor at its most intense. And then, just a couple of pushes after the bubble stayed out, a baby jettisoned out into my hands, butt-first.
I immediately started to pull off the mucus and clear off his face with the towel, but he wasn't moving. He was limp, and sort of stretchy feeling. We used the aspirator — that little plastic snot-sucking bulb — to clear out his mouth (grey, lifeless tongue hanging out the side) and nostrils. I kept rubbing him vigorously, just in case, but Emmett grabbed the stethoscope and confirmed that he had no heartbeat. We continued trying to resuscitate him for a bit but it was pretty clear he was already long gone by the time he made his entrance in the world.
After so much waiting, our hearts were broken… Would there be any more kids? Was that it? I reached around Emily's belly, about to "bounce" her to see if there were any more babies inside. But no sooner had I done so when, barely two minutes after the birth of the first one, Susannah shouted, "The next one's coming!" Her words were somewhat of a premonition. (It wasn't "the other one," just the next one.)
The next one came out kicking to try and break out of the thick red sac enveloping it. We were thrilled to see signs of life, and immediately set about trying to get the baby cleaned off. We grabbed the aspirator again and cleared out the baby's mouth and nostrils. That was literally all we had time to do before Susannah announced the birth of the next kid. We were shocked — she had three in there?! Austin took care of getting the second kid rubbed down, cleaned and dried off, and showed him to Emily so she could help with the process. (Emily, sadly, was trying her hardest to wake up the stillborn, who was on a towel on the floor of the kidding stall — so Emmett moved him away.) Then Emmett, Susannah and I set to work clearing the third baby's lungs, and getting her cleaned off. She had a bit more mucus in her mouth than the first and was coughing and sneezing, so I gently but firmly held her by her back legs and swung her upside down to drain all of the fluid out of her longs.
At this point, I should mention why getting the kids cleaned off is so important, and so much of a challenge. The thing is, babies don't come out like babies. They come out like a package wrapped in red plastic wrap, inside which is an ocean of water and goo, beneath which is a tiny scrawny creature that is trying desperately to breathe and doesn't quite look ready for the world. It's amazing that, within half an hour, these fetus-things turn into real goat babies… fluffy, trying for their first steps, and suckling with a bit of human help on mama's teat.
Emily passed her afterbirth and immediately began chowing down on the large bloody organ-looking thing. (This seemed to be the one job more important than licking the babies — and licking babies is a job she's been taking very seriously ever since they were born 36 hours ago.) We snipped & dipped the kids' umbilical cords (in iodine), got them started nursing, and lifted their tails to check their genders: 1 boy and 1 girl. The boy is named "Emilio" since he is a debonair, gregarious mini-Emily. His coat patterns look just like mom. Middy, aka Midnight Oil for our long night of midwifing, is a fine-boned black doeling with a white cap and possibly a couple of moonspots. She was a bit weaker at first and took longer to find the teat on her own, but with a bit of patience (and goat Nutridrench) she's now capering all around the kidding pen.
But that's not the end of the story. Once we were sufficiently recovered to have the chance to look more closely at the stillborn, we realized that the stillborn kid was HUGE. Like nearly twice the size of the other kids. And overdeveloped — he had a full set of teeth, and his (ahem) "male parts" were unusually large. I remembered something very odd that Emily's previous owner had mentioned to me; she'd taken Emily in for an ultrasound to confirm her pregnancy before selling her, and the vet had said that the fetuses weren't the same size, so he didn't think the fetuses were the same age. In other words, Emily had become pregnant but cycled again, and was impregnated a second time since she was in a pen with a buck. The vet also had written on the ultrasound sheet that Emily had "1+" babies inside her, which I had assumed meant that he confirmed sighting of one baby and thought that there may be others — but in retrospect I think meant that probably 1 would make it, and there may be another underdeveloped one that wouldn't.
So while we're sad for the big brother who never made it, we're grateful that super-mom Emily kept all three babies in her belly until the two littler ones were ready for the world. Because right now, snuggled together under a heat lamp in the barn, are a handsome buckling who is the spitting image of his mom and a beautiful black doeling: siblings who are already the best of friends. Given Emily's capacious udder and great mothering & birthing ability — to be able to birth a breach baby unassisted is impressive, to be able to birth an oversized lifeless breach baby in time to get the other kids out alive is pretty amazing — we're thinking of keeping Emilio as a possible herd sire. (In other words, letting him keep his male parts intact so he can eventually make more babies.)
The stillborn is buried up under the alpaca tree, just behind the barn, where our guardian alpacas sleep and where he'll be close to his family. Emily, Emilio, and Middy are happy as can be, snuggling and nursing, sleeping and cavorting, trying to jump up on top of mom and competing for the best teat (which is apparently the right one, much to the chagrin of Emily's overfull left udder). And we human farmers are grateful that we can finally get a good night's sleep — at least until April, when 3 more goats are due!


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At 6:33 UTC over Edmonton, Alberta I witnessed an Auroral substorm after waiting many months and recorded it on real-time video with an ultra wide aperture lens. Though the substorm was a somewhat fainter one the camera revealed vibrant greens and a reddish-pink below racing across the sky. Athabasca, which happens to be 140 KM north of Edmonton features an all sky camera for imaging Aurora. Looking over archives I discovered that this camera picked up a bright auroral substorm beginning at 6:26 UTC, 7 minutes before the one in Edmonton. In previous observations I found that I could see aircraft at altitudes of about 35,000 FT when their above ground position was over 80KM away. This means that the Auroral substorm I recorded over Edmonton and the one recorded over Athabasca were likely the same ones considering how high the Aurora is, and this presents an issue. Using a reference photo I determined the inaccuracy of my camera's time stamp and accounted for it when recording the time of the substorm. The time stamp of the Athabasca camera must be accurate, otherwise it would be seeing into the future in this case. This means the substorm over Athabasca was in fact 7 minutes ahead of the one in Edmonton. Correct me if I am wrong, but when magnetic disturbances occur they first happen at Northern Latitudes and make their way south if strong enough, reinforcing the observation over Edmonton and Athabasca. I will continue to observe for Auroral sub storms over Edmonton and if I can find an even remotely reliable correlation between the Athabasca camera live feed and what is observed in Edmonton then we will be able to predict the most beautiful light show on earth when it is bright enough to break through the light pollution and become visible to the naked eye. This may just be the ramblings of someone desperate to witness the greatest light show on earth while being in a city, but I do believe I could be onto something. I am interested to hear feedback from other community members.


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Heat hold off 76ers to run win streak to 20 games
- Heat join 1971-72 Lakers%2C 2007-08 Rockets%2C 1970-71 Bucks as only teams to win 20 straight in a season
- LeBron James scored 27 points%2C and Dwyane Wade had 21%2C including tip-in and two free throws in final minute
- Thaddeus Young had 24 points and 15 boards for 76ers%2C while Jrue Holiday had 21 points and seven assists
PHILADELPHIA — Jrue Holiday dunked over LeBron James to tie the game late in the fourth quarter and bring the capacity crowd to its feet.
But the Philadelphia 76ers proved incapable of halting one of the longest winning streaks ever, as the Miami Heat rallied to win their 20th consecutive game, 98-94 on Wednesday night at the Wells Fargo Center.
It's the longest single-season winning streak by a defending champion in NBA history, surpassing the 19-game run put together by the 2007-08 Boston Celtics. It also ties the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks for the third-longest single-season winning streak of all-time.
"Twenty is special," Miami guard Dwyane Wade said. "To win 20 games in a row is awesome. You can't get around it. There's no way. But we'll just try to go for the next one."
James finished with 27 points, eight assists and seven rebounds to lead the Heat (49-14), who scored five consecutive points after Holiday's slam knotted the score at 91 with 1:20 remaining. Wade added 21 points and eight boards.
Thaddeus Young had 24 points and 15 rebounds for the Sixers, including 16 points in the third quarter when Philadelphia trimmed its deficit to as little as four points. Holiday finished with 21 points, seven rebounds and seven assists.
"I feel badly that we couldn't come away with the win," Sixers coach Doug Collins said, "because our guys worked so hard to make that happen."
Philadelphia used a 14-2 run to take an 87-84 lead with four minutes to play, sending the sellout crowd of 20,398 into a frenzy. But what might have been the highlight of this putrid Sixers season instead went down as yet another bitter defeat. The Sixers (24-40) have lost 13 of their last 15 games.
"I guess this kind of sucks to say it, but we play to the level of our competition," Holiday said. "I feel like (against) the good teams we're usually in there, competing to the end. And even against teams who might not be as good, we're usually there until the end, too. But I don't know. I guess we're the type of players that like to step up to the challenge."
Two of the three previous teams to win at least 20 consecutive games in a single season went on to win the NBA championship.
The 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers own the record with 33 consecutive victories. That team, led by Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain and Gail Goodrich, rolled to a 69-13 record and the franchise's first NBA title since moving to Los Angeles in 1960. The 1970-71 Bucks went 66-16 and won their first title in franchise history. The 2007-08 Houston Rockets are second all-time with 22 consecutive victories.
"What you like is if you develop habits of having no excuses," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. "Regardless of who you're playing or what's laid out in front of you, you focus on the task at hand, and the guys took that to heart."
Miami was playing its second game in as many nights and the first of a five-game road trip, but summoned the strength to close the second quarter on a 23-6 run and lead the Sixers 51-39 at halftime.
The Sixers remained within striking distance, however, taking their first lead since early in the first quarter when Holiday hit a 3 for an 83-82 edge with 5½ minutes to play. Philly pushed its advantage to three points at 87-84 before the Heat scored the next five, with Ray Allen sinking a 3 to put Miami back on top.
Philadelphia tied the game twice more, but faded down the stretch.
"We just don't panic," James said. "Our main goal is to win a game, not to blow a team out. ... Wherever the game takes us in those 48 minutes, we're ready for it. When we have a lead and we lose it, and the other team takes the lead, either if we're at home or on the road, we don't panic."
James hit the first of two free throws to give the Heat the lead for good, and after a Sixers turnover, Wade tipped in a James miss for a 94-91 edge.
Spencer Hawes missed a layup at the other end, and while Dorell Wright later hit a 3 to pull the Sixers within two points with 18 seconds remaining, Miami connected on its final four free throws to seal the victory.
"They tried. They went for it. But we don't get rattled," Wade said. "We just stuck with it. Even when they went up three, we just came down, executed, LeBron got to the line and just settled us a bit, and we were able to come out with the win."
Jason Wolf covers the NBA for The (Wilmington, Del.) New Journal, a Gannett affiliate. Follow Jason on Twitter @JasonChadWolf.


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Brighton Collectibles Hosts FORCE and Sells For a Cause through the Month of October
From September 25th to October 31st, Brighton Collectibles - Lakeline in Austin, TX donated proceeds from sales of their Power of Pink charm and badge clip. The store also invited our local outreach coordinator, Renee Wasserman to provide information on FORCE and hereditary breast and ovarian cancer to shoppers. Our thanks to Vicky and the entire Brighton Collectibles team.


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Copyright © 2009 SEP.
SEP uses LaTeX to typeset its reports, books, and theses. LaTeX gives us a way to use a simple text source file from which we can derive both Postscript and HTML versions of our documents. You can find our documents on SEP's public documents site. Sergey Fomel has been getting all geophysicists to use and contribute to a standard TeX class. Check out the RSF SEGtex website for the latest.
TeX is a typesetting language, created by Donald Knuth, a famous professor from Stanford. TeX typesets complex documents beautifully and is the system of choice for most people who put mathematical equations and figures in their texts. SEP's LaTeX environment for paper and report building has been synched with the LaTeX environment with the Madagascar RSF data processing package RSF in a SCons build environment.
Currently, the LaTeX package and RSF are installed on oas, and this is where you should build your documents.
Building papers with the SCons/RSF package is quite straightforward. Before beginning, make sure that you have set the correct environmental paths. On (t)csh shells, this requires setting the following:
setenv RSFROOT /opt/RSF/ \\ setenv PYTHONPATH $(PYTHONPATH):$(RSFROOT)/lib/python2.7/site-packages \\
In the directory where your paper.tex file is located, you need to make a SConstruct file that passes the necessary arguments to SCons. The general structure of the SConstruct file is:
#------------------\\ # SConstruct for building papers\\ from rsftex import *\\ End(resdir=' ',use=' ',options=' ')\\ #------------------\\
In the call to End(), the resdir option informs SCons where the Figure directory is located. The use option passes on the names of LaTeX packages commonly included in building. Some common ones include amsmath, amsfonts and color. The options flag passes on settings about the layout of the document. For example, when you want to prepare something in a manuscript format (i.e. double-spaced) then you can use manuscript. Other options include single-sided and double-sided. You can also change the font size with 11pt and 12pt.
Building a report requires a slightly more involved SConstruct file; however, the process is fairly modular (not completely though!) so individuals will not have to change much in their own directory. Again, make sure that you have set the correct environmental paths:
setenv RSFROOT /opt/RSF/ \\ setenv PYTHONPATH $(PYTHONPATH):$(RSFROOT)/lib \\
The main report directory (currently located at /report/sep1??) should contain each author's report(s) in subdirectories. The default naming convention is your login name followed by a number (e.g. jeff3). One then has to make a report SConstruct file. As an example, the one used to generate SEP134 is:
#----------------------------------------------- from rsfbook import *\\ report = ( \\ ('Imaging Hessian', 'yaxun1 claudio1 gayeni1'),\\ ('Velocity Analysis','biondo1 claudio2 altheyab1 sjoerd2'),\\ ('Imaging with non-standard coordinates and sources', 'jeff1 jeff2 jeff3 sjoerd1'),\\ ('Computational Interpretation', 'adam1 bob1 bob2'),\\ ('Interpolation','bill2 jon1 xukai1'),\\ ('Amplitudes and anisotropy','jim1 jim2 jim3 mohammad1') )\\ Papers(\\ copyr='by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University\\\\ \\vspace{2.0in} Copying \\ permitted for all internal purposes of the Sponsors of Stanford Exploration Project',\\ report='SEP-134',\\ group='Stanford Exploration Project',\\ line='Report Number 134, April 2008',year=2008,\\ fig=('Filler','cover','width=\\textwidth'),\\ resdirs={'jim3':"FIG",'biondo1':'Fig/Psfig'},\\ papers=report,bios = '/usr/local/share/TEX/database')\\ End(use='amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb',options='onecolumn')\\ #-----------------------------------------------
Note that if individuals have different naming conventions for their figures, then these can be specified using the resdirs option.
Other report making issues:
Fig folder. (This breaks latex2html and hence the report build as a whole.)
\plot{model_vel} breaks the report.
\lefthead{Maysami} \righthead{short title of paper} \footer{SEP--138}
\email command.
\def works fine; however,
\newcommand causes problems when is repeated for defining the same command (e.g include the same macro file in two deifferent aricles) . If you define a new commnd you must add your initials at the beginning of the command name (e.g. \providecommand BLBmycommad {#1}{\par}.) One work-around is
\providecommand. The
\providecommand is identical to the
\newcommand if a command with this name does not exist; if it does already exist, the
\providecommand does nothing and the old definition remains in effect.
mohammadA and
mohammadB) into the main report directory and try to build it. For this purpose, you may make a local copy of the report directory in your own home directories and create two copies of each of your paper directories (e.g.
mohammadA and
mohammadB). Then try to build the report with only your own papers in it and see if it works fine or not. If not, you may consider debugging your paper to fix the problems.
TeX is a typesetting language, created by Donald Knuth, a famous professor from Stanford. TeX typesets complex documents beautifully and is the system of choice for most people who put mathematical equations and figures in their texts.
You can download TeX-related software from a set of mirrors of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN).
At SEP's Unix servers, we use the teTeX package. For Windows machines, I recommend MikTeX package, found in miktex.org. Both these packages are from Germany. A good DVI viewer for Windows is DVIWIN.
Mac users will probably want to install TeXShop, a really comprehensive package that can be found at TeXShop. This does not interface well with all of SEP's TeTeX environment; however, it is quite handy for doing TeXy things on Macs.
| Donald Knuth's Home Page
CTAN on the Web
teTeX package for Unix
MikTeX package for Windows NT/95
Leslie Lamport developed a popular TeX macro package, LaTeX. LaTeX source files are processed into DVI (device independent) files. You can inspect the dvi files on a computer screen or process them into a Postscript file for printing. LaTeX2HTML converter is another very useful application of LaTeX.
LaTeX source files are processed with a plain text editor or word processor. The editor of choice is GNU Emacs, empowered by AUC TeX package. On Windows, there is a nice shareware program, Texmaker, found on http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/.
| Leslie Lamport 's Home Page
LaTeX documentation
All about LaTeX2HTML
GNU Emacs as a religion, Windows port
AUCTex package for Emacs
Recommended books on LaTeX are
LaTeX2e allows users to add their own classes to the standard classes ("article", "letter", "book", "report", etc.), supplied in the base LaTeX2e distribution. SEP2e is a LaTeX2e class, used at SEP for writing reports, books, and theses. A brief documentation is available as a compressed postscript and HTML.
February 2007, Brad Artman added an example Adm directory for your Thesis directory. All chapter directories live in the Thesis directory. All the files you need in Thesis/Adm are included here: Thesis/Adm. Check out the thesis faq too. One- and two-sided printing now supported (and accepted by the University).
To help new users start writing SEP report papers, we provide an example paper in compressed postscript and HTML.
| sep2e.ps.gz (52K) - SEP2e documentation in postscript
paper.ps.gz (121K) - example article in postscript
For a convenient LaTeX processing, we use a set of site make rules and Perl scripts. The scripts will be available soon on this server.
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Wii U Sales Still Lousy
Nintendo's Wii U isn't proving to be much of a successor to the 100-million-selling Wii. New metrics from NPD suggest that sales of the console continue to disappoint.
The market researcher said Friday that Wii U shipments rose over 40 percent month over month in February — encouraging news were it not for the poor shipment number from which they rose. Wii U shipments are believed to be as low as 57,000 units during January. In other words, Nintendo's Wii U shipments for the month of February were somewhere in the mid-60,000s. For a console that debuted just a few months ago, that's just plain lousy. Consider this: Microsoft shipped 302,000 Xbox consoles during the same period.
Suffice to say, Wii U is vastly underperforming expectations. So much so that you've got to wonder if Nintendo will meet its already lowered projections for the console. Back in January, the company slashed its sales forecast for the Wii U to four million consoles by the end of March from a prelaunch estimate of 5.5 million. If NPD's latest numbers are a reasonable indication, even that number may be too high for the company to reach.
Ugly news for Nintendo. If the company's brand-new Wii U can't hold its own against Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 — both of which are more than five years old — how will it fare against the forthcoming PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's next-generation Xbox?
Time for a price cut? Maybe, but the company has previously ruled that out.
"With Wii U, we have taken a rather resolute stance in pricing it below its manufacturing cost, so we are not planning to perform a markdown," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said in January. "I would like to make this point absolutely clear. We are putting our lessons from Nintendo 3DS to good use, as I have already publicly stated. However, given that it has now become clear that we have not yet fully communicated the value of our product, we will try to do so before the software lineup is enhanced and at the same time work to enrich the software lineup which could make consumers understand the appeal of Wii U."
Looks like Nintendo still has a lot of work to do communicating that value.


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The American Southwest hasn't seen this many endangered Mexican gray wolves roaming the wild in decades.
The results of this year's annual survey of wolves in Arizona and New Mexico mark a first for the troubled reintroduction program. Wolves were first released in 1998, but the numbers have never been this high.
The estimates released Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show there are at least 75 wolves in the wild in the two states. That includes 13 packs, four breeding pairs and 20 pups.
That's up from last year's estimate of 58 wolves.
The survey comes as federal officials revamp a decades-old plan that guides management of the predator. A draft proposal calls for establishing rules for wolves that migrate into other parts of Arizona and New Mexico and into West Texas.


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Suborder: Haplorrhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Superfamily: Cercopithecoidea
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Cercopithecinae
Genus: Papio
Species: P. cynocephalus
Subspecies: P. c. cynocephalus, P. c. ibeanus, P. c. kindae
Other names: P. cynocephalus: Papio hamadryas
cynocephalus; cynocephalus baboon or savanna baboon; baviaan (Dutch);
babouin jaune (French); babbuino (Italian); babian, babuin, or gul babian (Swedish);
P. c. ibeanus: Ibean baboon; P. c. kindae: Kinda baboon
The scientific name for yellow baboons comes from the Greek words kynos
and kephalikos, meaning dog and head, respectively. This moniker refers to
the quadrupedal stance
seen in all baboons as well as the elongated muzzle which makes baboons look
like dogs compared to most other monkeys and apes, including humans, which have
flat faces (Altmann & Altmann 1970). While Groves (2001) recognizes
P. cynocephalus to be a separate species from other baboons, some taxonomists
have suggested that all yellow baboons be classified as a subspecies of
P. hamadryas (Jolly 1993).
Yellow baboons are aptly named for the yellow-brown fur which covers their
bodies except for their undersides, including the inner surfaces of the limbs,
cheeks, and patches of fur on either side of the muzzle, which are white (Rowe
1996; Groves 2001). Adult males and females have longer hair along their flanks
compared to the rest of their bodies while males have longer fur at the nape
of their necks (Groves 2001). Yellow baboons have a prominent brow ridge covered
in yellow-gray fur, but the rest of their face appears black and is only finely
covered with fur. Their ischial callosities are also black. They have a protruding
muzzle, similar to a dog's. Yellow baboons walk quadrupedally, with their
tails held up slightly and curved away from the body. There is variation between
subspecies in the tail position and shape (Groves 2001). All baboons are sexually dimorphic. Wild yellow baboon males have an average height of 1200 mm (3.94
ft) and weigh 25.8 kg (56.9 lb) while females measure 976 mm (3.20 ft) and
weigh only 11.0 kg (24.3 lb), on average (Altmann et al. 1993). Variation in
length and sharpness of canine teeth is also seen among males and females.
Male baboons have long, sharp upper canine teeth compared to females. They
use their canines in aggressive interactions with other males and when feeding on large vertebrate prey (Walker 1984; Altmann pers. comm.).
Subspecific differences are slight among yellow baboons. Papio cynocephalus
cynocephalus infants are born with a black natal
coat that changes to
the adult coloration as they age, while P. c. kindae infants
have red coats at birth and P. c. ibeanus are
born white (Groves 2001; Jolly & Phillips-Conroy 2005). Young baboons lose
their natal coat starting at six months of age and have adult coloration by
the end of month nine (Altmann pers. comm.). Other differences between subspecies include
tail shape, body size, and pelage color. "Broken tails" are seen in P. c. cynocephalus;
the tail is held almost horizontally away from the body and then falls abruptly,
appearing broken. The other species have more gently curved tails. Differences
in body size between subspecies can be seen in P. c. kindae,
which is much smaller than other subspecies. Papio cynocephalus kindae males
are about the same size as females of the other two subspecies and the females
are proportionately smaller than the males (Jolly 1993). Finally, unlike the
other subspecies, P. c. ibeanus has wavy instead
of straight body hair (Groves 2001).
Like other cercopithecines, yellow baboons have cheek pouches, sacs in the
lower portion of the cheek wall that can be used to store food. Moving between
the cheek pouch and the oral cavity through a slit-like opening, food can be
stored in the cheek pouch for consumption at a later time (Lambert & Whitham
Longevity in wild female yellow baboons is estimated to be around 14 to 15
years, but females have been recorded living up to 27 years in the wild (Rhine
et al. 2000). Because of their social system and patterns of dispersal, it
is more difficult to estimate male longevity in the wild (Altmann et al. 1988).
The maximum lifespan in captivity is 40 years (Ross 1991).
Yellow baboons are found in central Africa from the west to eastern coasts
in Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, and Somalia (Groves
2001). From east of the Luangwa River in Zambia, into Malawi, northern Mozambique,
and most of Tanzania, P. c. cynocephalus can be found.
Papio cynocephalus ibeanus is found in Kenya and southern
Somalia and may range into southeastern Ethiopia while P. c. kindae is
found in eastern Angola, southwestern Zambia, and parts of southern Democratic
Republic of Congo (Jolly 1993; Groves 2001). There are some areas of overlap
in the range of P. cynocephalus and other baboon (Papio) species,
but levels of hybridization differ. For example, in Zambia and Angola, P. c. kindae overlaps with P. ursinus subspecies but there is not evidence of
interbreeding (Jolly 1993). On the other hand, in Kenya, P. c. ibeanus overlaps
with P. anubis and forms a hybrid zone, an area in which
individuals show unusual phenotypic diversity resulting from ongoing crossbreeding
between species (Samuels & Altmann 1986; Alberts & Altmann 2001). The
crossbreeding of P. cynocephalus and P. anubis in
this area may have contributed to the formation of the
subspecies P. c. ibeanus (Alberts & Altmann 2001).
Long-term research on yellow baboons has been conducted since 1971 by Jeanne
and Stuart Altmann, Susan Alberts, and their colleagues at Amboseli National
Park, in southern Kenya on the border of Tanzania. At Mikumi National Park,
Tanzania, Ramon Rhine and others have been studying yellow baboons since
1974. Yellow baboons have also been studied at Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
and at the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya. There are virtually
no published studies of yellow baboons in Angola, Mozambique, or Malawi,
countries that are plagued by civil war and where it is impossible for scientists
to study baboon behavior.
Yellow baboons inhabit thorn scrub, savanna, open woodland, and gallery
throughout their range (Rowe 1996). At Amboseli National Park, yellow baboons
are found in semi-arid savannas with stands of acacia trees (Acacia xanthophloea and A.
breaking up the open grassland (Altmann & Altmann 1970). Because of the
small amount of rainfall, they require proximity to water sources and are found
in swamps and groundwater forests created from the underground drainage of
Mount Kilimanjaro which rises above the park. Annual rainfall averages 335
mm (1.10 ft) and falls in two distinct periods, from November through December
and March through May. In this marginal environment, the temperature ranges
between 8.89 and 32.2° C (48 and 90° F) (Struhsaker 1967; Bronikowski & Altmann
1996). In the Tana River basin in eastern Kenya where yellow baboons are also
found, mean monthly rainfall is much higher than at Amboseli, around 400 mm
(1.31 ft) and the climate is slightly more temperate with average temperatures
ranging between 22 and 34° C (71.6 and 93.2° F) (Wahungu 1998). The
rainy seasons around the Tana River last from April to May and November to
December, similar to the seasonal pattern at Amboseli (Wahungu 1998). Yellow
baboons that are found in central Tanzania at Mikumi National Park live in
the floodplain of the Mkata River (Norton et al. 1987). A mosaic of riverine
forests and open grassland, which is seasonally flooded, are found in Mikumi
and baboons do not range into the open grassland farther than 2 km (1.24 mi)
from stands of trees. The warm, wet season lasts from November through May
and the cold, dry season begins in June and continues through October. The
average annual rainfall is 842 mm (2.76 ft) and temperatures range from 15
to 35° C (59 to 95° F) (Norton et al. 1987). Water is a limiting
factor for baboon groups. The amount of rain determines the amount of standing
water and therefore dictates the ranging patterns of baboon groups living in
the park (Norton et al. 1987). In addition to being found in undeveloped savannas,
yellow baboons are highly adaptable and can take to living alongside humans
in rural areas developed for agriculture (Maples et al. 1976; Muoria et al.
Baboons have a diverse diet and are able to exploit a wide variety of foods,
a necessity in an environment that is highly seasonal and in which the availability
of food varies in abundance throughout the year. Yellow baboons have been
called "eclectic omnivores,"
because they are extremely selective in their
foraging but
they have a highly diverse diet (Altmann 1998). For example, in a study done
at Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, yellow baboons were recorded eating plant
parts from more than 180 species, but of those, only seven species were eaten
throughout the year (Norton et al. 1987). Yellow baboons are highly dependent
on reliable food sources including two species of acacia -- the fever
tree (Acacia xanthophloea) and the umbrella tree (A.
tortilis) -- grasses,
and tubers (Altmann & Altmann 1970; Post 1982; Norton et al. 1987). In
gallery forests and around permanent water holes, they consume all edible parts
of the fever tree including leaves, gum, inner pith, blossoms, seeds, seed
pods, and rotten wood. The umbrella tree, which grows in drier parts of their
habitat, is utilized in a similar manner (Altmann & Altmann 1970). They
also feed on grasses, stripping the seed heads from the blades and consuming
the most nutritious part of the grass. During the dry season, they dig around
the base of grass blades and consume the corms, which are fleshier and have
more water content than the tips of the blades (Altmann & Altmann 1970).
Immediately following the rainy season, when grass begins to sprout and is
plentiful, they consume the entire blade (Wahungu 1998). Baboons are excellent
diggers and utilize tubers, corms, and underground bulbs of plants throughout
the year as well (Post 1982; Norton et al. 1987). In addition to grass, tubers,
and acacia tree products, yellow baboons also feed on fruits, flowers,
termites, beetles, ants, reptiles, birds, bird eggs, small vertebrate prey,
and other primates including vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops)
and lesser bush babies (Galago senegalensis). At the Tana River site where baboons are studied, fruit availability
peaks after the rainy season and is at its lowest toward the end of the dry
season. To cope with these seasonal changes in fruit availability, yellow baboons increase the frequency of consumption of invertebrates as well as eating more roots and tubers (Wahungu 1998).
Yellow baboons are reliant on essential localized resources such as water, food,
and sleeping sites to determine their ranging patterns, therefore seasonal differences
in daily range length and home range size are seen (Altmann 1974). At the Tana River study site, during the
months following the end of the rainy season, baboons spend more time foraging
and moving in gallery forests areas compared to the dry season, when they move
into the open woodland and savanna (Wahungu 1998). The prevalence of fruit in
the forest after the rainy season means they do not have to travel as far to
obtain nutrient-rich foods and their daily path length is only about 3.4 km
(2.11 mi) (Wahungu 2001). In the dry season, when fruits are scarce and foods
in the forest are fewer compared to the savanna, yellow baboons expand their
daily path movements to exploit as many food resources as are available, moving about
7.2 km (4.47 mi) each day (Wahungu 1998; 2001).
While most of the day is spent on the ground, baboons retreat to trees in nearby
riverine or gallery forests overnight. Because of its size, the group is spread
out over several trees, utilizing a sleeping grove rather than just a single
tree (Wahungu 2001). Baboons center their home ranges around the main forested
area where sleeping trees are located and return to the grove in the evenings
(Wahungu 2001). The group leaves the sleeping grove between 7:00 and 10:00 a.m.
each morning. After descending from the trees, the group either remains in the
vicinity of the sleeping grove, socializing and grooming or moves into open
grassland to forage (Altmann & Altmann 1970). Yellow baboons forage throughout
the day, but there are peaks in social activity in the mid-morning, early to
mid-afternoon and in the evening after entering the sleeping grove. As they
forage, the group moves progressively further from the sleeping grove, but
around mid-day, the group turns and begins to forage in the direction of the
sleeping grove, working their way back to the forest and entering the sleeping
grove between 5:30 and 6:45 p.m. (Altmann & Altmann 1970; Wahungu 2001).
One of the reasons baboons seek refuge in sleeping trees is to protect themselves
from nocturnal predators. Potential predators include lions, cheetahs, leopards,
spotted hyenas, jackals, pythons, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes),
predators such as servals, caracals, and genets, dogs, and humans (Altmann & Altmann
1970; Wahungu 2001).
Baboons appear to be more closely related to humans and are therefore good
candidates for animal models in biomedical research (Fridman & Popova 1988a).
Yellow baboons, in particular, have been used in research on physiology, blood,
the cardiovascular system, neurology, and endocrinology. They have also been
used as an animal model to study organ transplantation, alcoholism, epilepsy,
and high blood pressure (Fridman & Popova 1988b). About 6% of the biomedical
studies involving nonhuman primates include baboon species (Carlsson et al.
2004). Changes in taxonomy and difficulty identifying species have made it
impossible to evaluate which baboon species are used most frequently in research
(Fridman & Popova 1988a).
Content last modified: January 6, 2006
Written by Kristina Cawthon Lang. Reviewed by Jeanne Altmann.
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