Karura Forest #65: BBB
The cache, a custom-made blue bottle-tops cache, is hidden between/behind small rocks under a horizontal root above the Pipeline Trail some 30m from Junction 3.
To reach the cache location:
From main gate A (Limuru Rd) @ S01 14.829 E36 48.948, after paying your entry and parking fees, proceed the 1.2km or so to the junction by the barrier at S01 14.447 E36 49.148. Turn right here, continue past the new River Cafe to the extensive Amani Garden parking area @ S01 14.577 E36 49.235. From here take the exit gate at S01 14.594 E36 49.191 which gives access to a small trail crossing an open grassy area to join the Lake Trail heading east from Junction 5. Turn left (east) and follow this trail through Junction 4 onto the Pipeline Trail and down to the cache location. See KF#64: GGG for Waypoints.
For background information on Karura Forest including access, fees, opening times, features, a detailed trail map and useful links, see GC4PD3V Karura Forest #1: Intro, Info & Entry.
(Continued from KF#64: GGG)
Brown bushbabies are solitary and live and forage in their home range marked by urine and scent gland on chest. Males and females disperse from their birth territory, males moving
earlier and farther away. Males and females do not have ranges that overlap with same sex and same-aged individuals. Males have territories that overlap with several females but females tend to be dominant over males. Males tend to follow females around and females show more aggression to transient individuals passing through their home territory than males.
They are promiscuous and when a female comes into estrus once a year in the spring, the male is drawn to a female in heat and emits a sex call. If she is receptive, she will allow copulation with the male licking her head following intercourse. This process may be repeated.
Gestation is 130 days and females usually only have one offspring at a time. The young are born with half-closed eyes and are initially unable to move about independently. After 6-8 days, mothers carry their infants with their mouths to nests or place them on branches while feeding and leave them while they forage, returning to nurse them. Infants are weaned by the 5th week and reach sexual maturity after 20 months.
Continues with KF#66: All the better to see you with! . . .