Greene, H. 1990 October 23 (continued) adjacent savannah. On my first day in Africa I am struck by similarities to Latin America: right ado on the bus stop shelters, barefoot kids everywhere, diesel fumes, lots of fresh produce, people walking everywhere. W/ two others we took a mini bus to the natural park, first spending ~45 minutes in a sort of zoo near the entrance. Saw a Maunya striata sunning at the base of a store house. Soon after entering the park, Bob spotted a big leopard (Panthera pardus) in a tree, sprawled on a limb. While we watched, it looked our way then turned and in a couple of bounds was down the trunk and out of sight. Three giraffe near us abruptly turned parallel and pointed in the leopard's direction. Photographed a red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Uraeginthus bengalus) eating someth' in dung. In three hours we saw thousands of mammals, including various antelope, blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), zebra (Hippotigris quagga), warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), eland, waterbuck, bateleur eagles (one w/ a young one next to it- olive gray, the septum at a distance of a stuffed toy), ostrich, five baboons, and monkeys. We spent ~30 minutes walking a trail littered w/ hippo dung along a deep stream (~10m wide), and photographed several turtles Bob thinks are Pelodiscus subrufus basking on emergent limbs. October 24 We slept late and relaxed, still pretty jet lagged. I woke up ~3:30h. w/ a terrible leg cramp, almost my