No more Namaqualand

I just returned from seven weeks of absolute relaxation in the Namaqualand and I'm trying to readjust to city life. Namaqua was, as always, unbelievable. Ben and I completed the nightjar project and finished a second project on elephant shrews, so hopefully two good publications will come out of all the work. A definite highlight of the trip was stopping by a graduate student's field site to play with a pangolin on the way back to Pretoria (that's her in the picture).

It is now less than one month until I leave for Brazil, which I am very excited about, but I have a ton of work to finish between now and then (I guess that's what seven weeks of slacking off in the Namaqualand gets me). I have several manuscripts that need to be completed and submitted and Ben and I will be going back and forth to Ezemvelo next week to do the second year of the elephant shrew project we started last August.

Otherwise, everything is going to be relatively dull for me for the next few weeks and I'll be easy to contact.