While studying the effects of elephants' impact on the diversity of soil insects in Northern Botswana, Dr. Watson faced the challenges of communicating effectively with border guards, retrieving car keys from marauding monkeys, and escaping a hippo irritated by the whining of his rewinding camera. It wasn't all fun and games. In Johannesburg, Dr. Watson also visited the lab of Dr. Van der Linde at the University of Orange Free State in Bloemfontain. Dr. Watson received the invitation from Dr. Van der Linde at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Dr. Watson and his fellow researchers used light traps at night to collect insects for study.
Vehicles can sink as in quicksand.
Giant termite mounds convince campers not to sleep on the ground. Guns are possessed only by rangers, not police or private citizens. Elephants serve as the forefront to a changing landscape. An elephant will eat up to 20 hours per day, and they're hard on trees, stripping the bark and pushing the trees over. The new flora that follows draws smaller animals, such as zebras.