THE BALURAN NATIONAL PARK
October 17th, 2006
Watching Wild Buffels
One of the attractions that can be experienced at the Baluran National Park, is watching wild buffels drinking, and bathing. Apart from that, we can also watch wild bulls, deers, antelopes, wild boars, panthers, mangrove and wild cats, otters, komodos, and 147 species of birds, for example needle tailed swallows, uli-uli, peacocks, and jungle fowls.
To watch how wild buffels drink and bath, is indeed absorbing. For that purpose, the preservation management has prepared observation towers, equipped with long distance binoculars. Like the one at the Bekols Post, around 12 kilometres from the Batangan Post (the entrance post to the area). At this post there are two observation towers, one permanently built on top of hill, 64 metres high, the other one a quite sturdy wooden structure, 10 metres tall. These observation towers allow one to observe, not only the drinking and bathing wild buffels, but also the 3.5 kilometres stretch of savanas from the Bekol Post to the Bama Beach. Besides that one can observe other wildlife grazing.
Not far from the observation tower, several water reservoirs have been built, each of around 6 square metres. There, the wild buffels drink, and bath, in the morning and in the afternoon. But, during the dry season, sometimes this wild buffels prefer to bath in the sea. These buffels have sensitive hearing. Hence, if tourists are watching these wild buffels, no sound should be made, otherwise they will run off, or sometimes even get mad and chase the source of the sound.
Wild bulls are different. Being clean and loners, wild bulls will not drink at the reservoirs if preceeded by the buffels. Hence, these prefer to drink around noon time, and during the evening hide in the dense forest.
source : www.petra.ac.id
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