{"id":67227,"date":"2017-01-24T00:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/phil-and-mary-kemp-talk-african-animals-at-dolores-library\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:46:04","slug":"phil-and-mary-kemp-talk-african-animals-at-dolores-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/phil-and-mary-kemp-talk-african-animals-at-dolores-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil and Mary Kemp talk African animals at Dolores library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f1f435ec-1d35-4434-8be1-b3f4c75a9e04&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1317\" height=\"1464\" alt=\"Phil Kemp speaks about his trip to Botswana to a crowd at the Dolores Public Library on Thursday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Phil Kemp speaks about his trip to Botswana to a crowd at the Dolores Public Library on Thursday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Stephanie Alderton\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The second event in the Dolores Public Library\u2019s \u201cWinter Tales\u201d lecture series took attendees on a virtual safari to southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>A large crowd packed into the library Thursday night, despite the snowstorm outside, to hear a report from a country that rarely experiences snow, even in winter. Dolores residents Phil and Mary Kemp gave a presentation on their July trip to Botswana, which they took with several other people interested in wildlife. They showed pictures of several rare animal species while recounting the more exciting parts of the journey.<\/p>\n<p>The library is offering a free event every week through the beginning of March, alternating between foreign film screenings and \u201cWinter Tales.\u201d Carolyn Gunn gave the first of the lectures on Jan. 5, about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n<p>The Kemps told a few stories about their adventures in a Botswana national park \u2013 like the time a family of baboons stole their camp gear \u2013 but their main focus was on the animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trip was not a wildlife photography trip, the trip was just to see Botswana and \u2026 enjoy the animals that live there,\u201d Phil Kemp said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mary Kemp managed to get many high-quality photos of hippopotamuses, giraffes, lions, cape buffaloes and a wide variety of African birds. She even photographed a black rhinoceros, a member of an endangered species. One of her favorite moments, she said, was when the group watched a herd of elephants cross a river with a baby in tow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe little guy was having trouble, but the other elephants, and they were all females probably, they all made sure he made it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was so great to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the presentation, the couple answered questions from the crowd about the animals and landscape. They showed their route on a map of Botswana, and handed out lists of the animals they identified on the trip. Library Director Virginia Mattingly thanked the crowd for coming and encouraged them to attend the next lecture, on Feb. 2. Andrew Gulliford will speak about a travel opportunity close to home, in a lecture titled \u201cOutdoors in the Southwest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African animals in winter lecture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,13,638,1469],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-library-and-museum","tag-travel-and-commuting"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67227"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}