Coming to the end of a busy research schedule and the beginning of a lot of traveling

Just a quick update. The last month has been filled by an ongoing research project on mole-rats that has meant most of my time has been spent feeding animals, cleaning cages, and fixing everything that the mole-rats have chewed up. I leave next week for Poland to do a superficially similar project on bank voles, which will hopefully cause less trouble than the mole-rats. I get back to South Africa on the April 28th, but turn around and leave for the Namaqualand on the May 1st for 12 days. Ben and I are capturing freckled nightjars for an extension of the project we did out there last year and we are adding a project on elephant shrews this year. The Namaqualand is still my favorite place in southern Africa, so I can't wait to get back out there.