Postcards from the Roadside Enclosure

Another good photo opportunity day. We were there for several hours, so I was able to get closer to the horses than usual. The scientists have been staying in the small building next to the enclosure, since the project requires about 58 hours of continuous monitoring and dung collection.

Mutual Grooming

More Mutual Grooming

This was the only horse to stick her head out of her enclosure when I approached.

Me with a horse urinating in the background. I am just so damn glamorous.

She didn't seem to mind letting people touch her.

In my EWU shirt, taking promotional pictures. Women and horses, they just eat that kind of stuff up.

Action shot. They may look like they're about to sprint away from one another, but really they are butting butts.

The previous night a very large wolf was prowling around the enclosure. These are some tracks. It was a very large wolf. The wolves have no problem getting into the enclosure, but the horses are fierce and fight them off. Not all the scars you see on them were caused by other horses. They've even found wolf teeth still stuck in the horses' legs after a fight.

Measuring out medicine for the horses. The medicine makes the parasites drop with the dung so they can count them.

This skull belonged to a wild gazelle. As a good anthropologist I took several shots of it in the position in which I found it.

I then repositioned it to make some of its characteristics(here the horns) more visible.

The yellow powder on the snow is medicine.