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Kirsty the current researcher has now finished her time at ALERT, and with that, my trainer has left too. I’m now the one and only lion researcher here at Antelope Park, which is a bit of a scary prospect! Spent the morning with the pride (the cub seems to keep wandering off, which was a bit of a worry initially but I guess it means she’s growing up and becoming more independent), then midday with the breeding programme lions trying to measure pugmarks from some of the lions there. This is easier said than done! Getting a perfect footprint is hard at the best of times and depends a lot on the substrate, the way the animal walks through it and whether they walk back over it to smudge the original tracks. It took over two hours to get just two individuals to walk over sand in such a way that we could measure their tracks today – what a pain!! A lot of time was spent waiting around for the handlers to get the lions into their management pens so that we could ...