I woke up again after being rudely kept awake for most of the night.  A storm hit just as we were going to sleep and the lightning was awesome.  As the storm passed we could hear hyena again and it's amazing how innocent and friendly their yup yupping sounds.  It's hard to believe that they've got one of the most powerful jaws in the animal kingdom.

I finally drifted off but woke suddenly to a loud growling noise coming to the right of our tent from the staff quarters.  Whatever it was it did not sound very happy.  Dave thought it could have been a honey badger, which despite it's cute name is an extremely vicious little animal, left alone by most of the big carnivores.  However the staff said that there were civet tracks outside their home this morning so it was probably just two civets having a fight.  If you've ever heard two domestic cats fighting, triple that and you are close on imagining the racket that kept me awake last night.

We had a monkey in the kitchen today.  After lunch I went to take some glasses back to the kitchen and just as I got to there I thought I saw something moving through the mesh door.  I went back to get Carrie and Andy as I was pretty sure it was a monkey.  I stood well back as Andy went in after it with an umbrella.  Carrie held the door open.  There was a lot of shouting from Ady and banging from the monkey as Andy chased him round the kitchen and the monkey kept climbing up the shelves and knocking things onto the floor.  Finally Andy made contact with the back of the monkeys head and with that little tap he scooted out of there pretty quickly.