306. Courses & Programs: Wildlife Ecology & Natural History.

Wildlife Ecology & Natural History - Animal Behaviour - Pyramid of Life.

Wildlife Ecology has been our major subject since the early times of our college.

We use the famous book known as the Pyramid of Life.

This Book 6 major groups as:

Pursuit of Food: Grazing, Browsing, Migrating, Hunting, Co-operations, Competitions & Scavenging.

Reproduction: Male-Rivalry, Courtships, Mating, Gestation, Young & Passing Genes into the Next Generation.

Survival Strategies: Avoiding Death, Weapons, Speed & Precision, Camouflage and Colours of Survival.

Social Organization: Families, Pairs, Solitaries, Communications, Populations, Habits.

Controlling Factors: Geology & Climate, etc.

Modifying factors: Animal Feeding, Fire, etc.

Our approach has been to identify only the interesting information that a tourist would like to listen to while watching wildlife. The Commentary approach proved the best approach it only allows the guide to provide the relevant information fitting exactly to what is happening in front of them. The best example is like talking about the hunting strategy of lion as it is approaching the prey and discussing the various choices it has.

To make this approach more easier and more interesting, we have come up with the Photographic Commentaries 2010. (see page .....)

Accumulation of Water – Soda Lakes.

Adaptable Omnivore - bugs, beetle,s tortoises

Ancient Messages? – Leopard.

Animal Feeding – Elephants.

Animal Furniture – Hippopotamus.

Animals from the Grasslands – Buffalo.

Appropriate Egg – Plovers.

Aquatic Dinosaur – Crocodiles.

Army of Hunters – Siafu.

Balance of Nature – Grasslands.

Behavioural Flukes – Parasites, Oxpeckers.

Big is Beautiful – Elephant.

Blood Relatives – Elephant & Hyrax.

Call of the Wild – Vervet, Sykes Monkey.

Changing Amphibian – Frog.

Common Grounds – Topi, Tsessebe.

Competition between Species – Cheetah.

Competition within Species – Hyaena.

Cooperative Breeding - Nakuru bee-­eater.

Cooperative Clan – Hyaena.

Cooperative Imperative – Wilddog.

Courtship Ritual – Jackson’s Widowbird.

Cues for Courting dance – Yellow-billed Stork.

Dangers of Specialization – Flamingo.

Decomposing Plants – Lichens.

Deliquescent Nest – Frog.

Dependence on Death – Vultures.

Dependence of Others – Plants.

Design of the Hunter – Lion.

Design with Nature. Wild dogs, Serval cat.

Eat and Be Eaten – Lake-fly.

Economy of Numbers – Ostrich.

End-piece – Decomposers, Fly.

End-piece – Dungbeetle, Vulture.

Enriching the water – Hippopotamus.

Essential Forest – Forests.

Evolution of Species – Giraffes, Zebra, Rhino.

Eyes Have it.

Fading Fossil.

False Pretences – Orchids.

Family – Zebra

Females Choose – Elephant.

Fire.

First Lines of Defence – African Hare, Dik-dik.

Floods and Droughts.

Flowers.

Flying Fruit Eater – Silver-cheeked Hornbill.

Foreword.

Geology and Climate.

Giant Grass – Bamboo.

Golden-rumped Killer – Elephant Shrew.

Grass.

Grasslands.

Grazing sequence – Elephant, Buffalo, Zebra.

Hare – Impala..

Herds and Troops- Buffalo & Baboon.

Hierarchy of Respect – Wilddog.

Hierarchy of Strength – Lion..

Holes in the Canopy – Forests.

Honey Hunters – Man.

Hunter – Spider.

Hunters in the Air – Eagles.

Hunting Man – Man.

Husbandry at the Nest – Ostrich.

Indigenous Inhabitants – Bongo, Suni.

Inhospitable Nursery – Pelican.

Introduction.

Leaf-eating Monkey – Black & White Colobus.

Learning to Cope.

Leaves.

Legs and Mouths. – Ants & Hippo.

Longest Living Tree? – Baobab.

Male Rivalry – Impala.

Matriarchy – Elephants.

Metamorphosis and Mimicry – Monarch Butterfly.

Micro-grazers – Protozoa.

Microscopic Algae – Spirulina.

Migration – Wildebeest.

Mouth and Numbers – Bushbuck, Weevils.

Movement of Water.

Nest and Territory – African Fish Eagle.

Niches – Eland.

Niches – Beetles.

Nimble Opportunists – Jackal, Vulture.

Omnivorous Opportunist – Man.

One Good Turn – Chimpanzee, Baboon.

One Man’s Fish – Nile Perch.

One Prey Many Predators – Tilapia.

Parasite in the Nest – Red-chested Cuckoo.

Path of Water.

People and Forests.

Place to Brood – Tilapia.

Place to Mate – Tilapia.

Poisonous Caterpillar – Monarch Butterfly.

Pouch Fishing – Pelicans.

Prolific Pastures – Grassland.

Prolonged Negotiations – Giraffes.

Reaching a Niche – Giraffe.

Reaching for Food – Baboon.

Reluctant Pairs – Chameleon.

Royal family – Termites.

Seizing an Opportunity – Egyptian Vulture.

Setting the Stage – Seasonal Rainfall.

Sexual and Asexual – Ferns.

Sibling Rivalry – Hyaena.

Slime City - Biofilm

Slow and Steady – Tortoise.

Solar Constant – Sun.

Solitary Hunter – Cheetah.

Solitude – Black Rhino.

Special Solution – Soda Lake.

Specialist – Flamingo.

Speed and Precision. Praying Mantis.

Speed for Flight – Impala, Eland.

Strange Giants - giant groundsel, giant lobelia.

Strength in Diversity

Sum of the Parts - Hillslopes.

Super Bee – Bees.

Surprise – Chameleon.

Symbiosis – Ox-pecker, Whistling Thorn.

Time to Mate – Impala, Gazelle.

To Fly or Not to Fly – Flight.

To Go or not to Go – Wildebeest Migration.

Trapper – Spider.

Tree for All Seasons – Acacia.

Tree Layers -

Trees.

Ubiquitous Butterfly. – Butterfly.

Underground Society – Termites.

Weapons to Fight – Oryx.

Winging It - Dragonfly

Winners and Losers – Maasai.

And much much more!