Wildlife menace update

I am happy to report that Pierre is alive and well and was busy tormenting the archaeologists at PfB when I left. He still chases cars and would wait for us to return to the truck when I would go and visit other sites. The one thing I noticed about Pierre is that he sometimes doesn’t actually want to catch the truck. If you slow down when he’s chasing you, so will he. Some site directors reported that Pierre actually hung out around their sites and pestered them during their excavations.

 

Pierre waiting for us while visiting another site near La Milpa

 

Fellow archaeologist Toni Gonzalez trying to convince Pierre to get off the truck.

 

I tried to sneak into the passenger side of the truck but Pierre caught me. Here he is peaking over the cab of the truck.

 

Pierre is coming over to investigate why I'm getting into the car.

 

So now we're in the car and Pierre is still on the hood. We tried to shoo him off but to no avail. It was only after we got up to about 5 miles an hour that he decided to leave. He then proceeded to chase us down the La Milpa road...

Our other oscillated turkey was called Charlemagne, or to a lesser extent, Henry, depending on whom you asked. Charlemagne didn’t pester people so much as wanted to be around them. In fact, he seemed genuinely sad when almost everyone was gone during the break between session one and session two. He’d wander around camp making his turkey call but to no avail, no one was here. Odds were, if people were in camp, so was Charlemagne.

 

Charlemagne hanging out by the smokers circle during session one.