February 3rd was the day that Steve Benjamin (Animal Ocean) and I went up into the mountains to meet Jeremy Sheldon, Ph.D. student at the University of Cape Town. Jeremy is doing his Ph.D. thesis on the streams and rivers of the Bain’s Kloof region, in the mountains Northeast of the Cape. He’s comparing the ecology of streams that have been invaded with trout (100 years ago they were brought over and introduced for game fishing) to that of those streams and rivers where trout haven’t infiltrated.
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Jeremy Sheldon counts native fish along a transect in Tierhok River
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A gorgeous, gorgeous day of fieldwork in a beautiful place. I’m now seriously considering studying river otters along with sea otters.
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