Award-winning writer and photographer Stuart Butler always wondered how much work was involved in becoming a safari guide. He got his chance when the acclaimed safari and conservation group Asilia Africa let him be a “fly on the wall” at their wildlife guide training camp in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park from mid-March until mid-April 2016. Here is the second of his series of dispatches from the time he spent in the field, in which he gets lessons on the ecology of the savannah and the surprising creatures and plants that inhabit it.

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