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Alex Braczkowski

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
508 total appearances

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Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So she'll still go out and hunt, but a lot of the time, you know, there might be a little bit more of a prolonged period between hunts and

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

Yeah, so it's more of the instinct is coming from the little ones trying to join their mother at the top, you know, and she'll be calling them and sort of edging them on.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

But a lot of the time they just fall out.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

But they slowly pick it up, you know, and, you know, a lot of the time the distance that they're climbing is not particularly dramatic.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So, you know, those falls are not as bad for them as, yeah.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

Yeah, it's sort of these small...

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

Those kinds of sort of small location calls and they can't really vocalise very much at that age.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So, yeah, that's what they sound like.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

Yeah.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So Kampala, really the sort of the capital has really got one exit road out, the sort of Kasese Road.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

And then there's another road, the Mbarara Road.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So there's sort of two avenues out of the city and you sort of can get to the national park.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

in anything from about 8 to 11 hours, depending on which road you take and how good your car is and sort of the general state of the highway along the path, yeah.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So for my PhD, I was just sleeping in a number of places, sometimes on my rooftop tent.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So it's, you know, it's a little collapsible tent that just lives on my car.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

In small lodges, I was staying in a place called Tembo Safari Lodge.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

I literally had a tiny little room.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

I think it would cost about eight bucks a night to stay in with a little bed.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

And in other times, you're just sleeping in your car.

Conversations
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

So, yeah.