March 5, 2012
Today was exciting, because we got a hot lunch instead of a boxed lunch. Though not much happened today, no one complained. We needed a relaxing day. We did some shopping, and I traded a t-shirt for a painting, as well as my watch for a few other things.
We went to lake Manyara, and we watched a troop of baboons for a while. My instructor told them to "evolve already" and I suspect she doesn't care for baboons vey much.
Baboons have an interesting social structure that I read about in the book "A Primate's Memoir" by Robert Sapolsky, and I learned that males have to fight for alpha male status, but the alpha female is born with alpha status depending on whether or not her mother was an alpha or not.
After packing up we headed to Arusha, back to the lodge where we stayed our first night in Tanzania.
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