Off to prevent rabies!

A quick reminder, I am leaving tomorrow (Friday) to go on a 10 day rabies vaccination trip to the rural parts of Northern Namibia. Since I won't bring my laptop and will have pretty limited access to electricity to charge my phone, you won't hear from me in a bit. I'll tell you all about it when I get back and I'll talk about my research project which I did the initial assessment and data collection for today. Talk about a long day, I assessed 112 goats! Thoughts and prayers as a non-camping gal heads out into the bush to help some pups.

❤️ Leah

Sheep enjoying chin scratches — The sheep love chin scratches (peep the jealous sheep in the background waiting for her scratches)

Sparky the pangolin! The pangolin conservation centre doesn't have their own vet so we've been taking care of Sparky once a week cleaning his wounds (he got electrocuted) and passing a tube down his throat to feed him as he regains lingual (tongue) strength to eat on his own.

Sunrise in Namibia — A beautiful sunrise that (almost) made getting up at 5:30am worth it

Swakopmund and (almost) heading home

Recaps of a 16 hour day doing the annual water hole count, heading to the coast (Swakopmund) and feeling very ready to head back home where showers are a stable temperature. Swakopmund and water hole counts0:00/1202.0266671× Please enjoy this mini photo dump:

All about cheetahs

Fun facts about cheetahs0:00/290.881× Here are some non-cheetah photos of other creatures I take care of around CCF.

Differences in Medicine

Another long monologue in which I talk about some of the more frustrating parts of my internship so far. I anticipated differences in medical tools, but not medical standard and it has weighed on me a lot during my last 5 weeks. I am still having an overall fantastic experience

Etosha National Park Trip!

Etosha monologue0:00/526.6053511× All these photos were taken by Aryan Patel with his super fancy camera!! Bird species seen (34): Western cattle egret Egyptian geese Black headed heron Grey heron Secretary bird Ludwig bustard Ganar goshawk Ring necked dove Northern black Korran Red crested bustard Black faced waxbill

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Swakopmund and (almost) heading home

All about cheetahs

Differences in Medicine

Etosha National Park Trip!