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Though he looks like a Beatle with his shaggy hair and steel-rimmed glasses. Harvey Croze, 28, is concerned only with the music of the forest. The Oxford-trained zoologist has spent the past three years listening to and looking at elephants in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. He explains his passion for pachyderms: "The elephant is second only to man as a modifier of ecology. He has been around for 15 million years and is the biggest land mammal, but we hardly know anything about...
Croze, a member of the Serengeti Research Institute, has plenty of company in his pursuit of knowledge about how the animals of East Africa interact with their environment. He is one of 79 American and European wildlife scientists now working at research stations in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda; never has the region hosted so many experts of this kind. Financed by governments, foundations and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the scientists are striving to conserve the world's largest reservoir of wildlife. Decades of indifference and exploitation have driven some species, such as the cheetah...
Elephant Stress. Serengeti's 5,600 square miles and the surrounding 10,000 square miles are home to an estimated 1,500,000 big game animals-as many as roam the rest of Africa combined-but the lush woodland is being turned increasingly into savannah. Neighboring farmers burn off trees to create pasture land, elephants topple trees. It had been believed previously that the elephants felled trees simply for food. Croze argues that the real reason is a destructive urge born of overcrowding. Other scientists believe that, as elephants are driven into the park for refuge, their overall number...
...Salaam, on Africa's east coast. From there, Tanzanian game wardens will help him in his study of African wildlife-and Bobby will doubtless work with them in their efforts to conserve the herds of elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, wildebeest and antelope that roam the rugged Serengeti Plain 150 miles from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Taking care of animals is nothing new to young Kennedy: at home in Hickory Hill he has tended over a crawling, fluttering menagerie of one iguana, one scaly teju, two hawks, two geese, six chickens, six golden pheasants, and assorted turtles, snakes, and leopard...
ANIMAL KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The Great Migration." East Africa's Serengeti Plains are the scene of yet another documentary in the first of a series of adventures. Narrator Bill Burrud starts off with a look at the annual migration of vast numbers of animals...