BIG SHOES TO FILL: University of Graz undergraduate researcher Isabella Schaberl passes a water-filled elephant footprint, home to rich communities of tiny invertebrates, in Kibale National Park, Uganda.COURTESY WOLFRAM REMMERS
Wolfram Remmers, a graduate student at the University of Koblenz and Landau in Germany, had always wanted to visit a rainforest. So when the chance to take a summer field course with a nongovernmental organization, the Tropical Biology Association in Kibale National Park, cropped up in 2014, he leapt at the opportunity. “It was my first time in Africa,” Remmers says. “I was always fascinated in the biology of the tropics—and I was not disappointed!”
Spread over nearly 300 square miles in southern Uganda, Kibale National Park is famous for its diverse primate communities, as well as sizeable resident populations of big cats, birds, and the world’s largest land animal, the African bush elephant. The park has been a study site for more than four ...
