Former employee and film-maker Jimmy Malecki used to work for the park and recalls running the wild oxe into a crush, no mean feat considering the size of their shoulders, and administering pour-on drench for worm burden. There had been lick block, rich in selenium, to deal with a lack of the mineral in local clay soils, bordering acidic. Wild herbivores by nature require paddocks rich in selenium at the best of time.
