Boma

It was after midnight when Tarzan, with his slow-moving caravan, approached the spot where the elephants lay. Long before they reached it they had been guided by the huge fire the natives had built in the center of a hastily improvised boma, partially for warmth and partially to keep off chance lions.

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Orders had been given for the entrance to the boma to be blocked up, and accordingly we listened in the expectation of hearing the lion force his way through the bushes with his prey. As a matter of fact the doorway had not been closed and while we were wondering what the lion could be doing inside the boma for so long, he was outside reconnoitering our position.

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Carrying the hot water kettle, Mark follows the footpath through the dark camp to the boma. Surrounded by tall grass the boma is a three-sided structure of sticks and reeds standing at the edge of Marula Puku.

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2003, Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood, Alan and Rabinowitz, People and Wildlife, Conflict Or Co-existence?, Cambridge University Press, page 298, Recent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation.

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