Up Time Magazine- April/May 2008 - (Page 32) Figure 3 - Coming face to face with an elephant in the wild is not for the faint hearted. At up to 3.9 m (13 ft) tall and weighing 7500 kg (8.25 short tons), African elephants are potentially quite dangerous. lion to the left of us” and, with disbelief, he is finally convinced to turn the Land Rover light into the area, only to find that the city dweller really does have night vision. Disturbed by the light, the Lion was not happy, as he was interrupted while enjoying some alone time with his female. From our perspective, hearing and seeing a fully grow male lion’s roar 2 meters from the vehicle was the perfect conclusion to a thoroughly enjoy- able experiment. You may be saying “that’s not what these are made for” but, then again, even machines have to go on holiday sometimes ….. Steve Edwards is the owner of R&C Instrumentation, which has offices in Johannesburg and Durban and distributors country wide, and provides instrumentation sales, consulting & engineering services. Born and educated in Yorkshire, England, Steve moved to South Afri- ca 29 years ago, where he fell in love with the diverse culture and wild life of the country. Involved since the age of 16, in rotating equipment monitoring as an apprentice with the then CEGB in the UK at the unique Drax Power Station, he helped maintain and install Turbine Supervisory Equipment on the 650MW generating sets. R & C Instrumentation is the sole distributor for Raytek Infrared Detectors and Imagers, Hawk IR Ex Imagers and Windows, as well as other surface monitoring and recording equipment in South Africa. Steve can be reached at +27 086 111 4217 or stevee@ randci.co.za Figure 4 – A female cheetah with her cubs caught before daybreak on the plains of South Africa. Figure 5 – Image showing a group of waterbuck having an early morning meal. 32 april/may 2008 http://www.engr.utk.edu/rme http://www.engr.utk.edu/rme
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