DesertRhino150 -thank you for posting the link to our camera-trap results to this very interesting web forum (sorry it has taken me so long to reply). We are still unsure about the civet. As you can see it as a single distinct white ring near the tip of the tail, which is not similar to other civiets. It doesn't seem to be a coloration issue to me because the ring is a special pattern and not a differenc in hue or color tone. I'm going to search for more information. Once again, thanks for posting the link! -Greg
I've been a bit quiet recently as haven't managed to use the camera trap recently. However, a couple of weeks ago we came across a zebra that had died of natural causes. Something had eaten a bit of the flank but we decided to set a camera trap on it to see what came past. In the end we only recorded white-backed vultures but the speed that they cleaned up the carcass was really impressive. Hope you like the video! Vultures-Cleaners of the bush
A camera-trapping project in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, has captured what scientists believe is the first ever film of a wild nocturnal curassow. http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0617-hance-nocturnal-curassow-film.html#m0MeguMVx1PPHiv5.99 Species in the film (in order) include: Common piping-guan Crab-eating raccoon Giant armadillo Jaguar Nocturnal curassow Bicolored porcupine White-bellied spider monkey Margay Mealy parrot Ocelot Linne's two-toed sloth Short-eared dog Capybara White-lipped peccary Red howler monkey Yellow-footed tortoise Speckled chachalaca Red brocket deer Ring-tailed coati
Camera trap photos of wild Flat-headed cat ! : Monkeys reset camera trap, capture first-ever images of flat-headed cats in park
And some camera trap photos from Papua New Guinea : 'New mammal species' found in PNG by Australian scientists on crowd-funded expedition - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
And some very nice video-camera traps from Equador ! : http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0617-hance-nocturnal-curassow-film.html#m0MeguMVx1PPHiv5.99
They're so good at catching rare, elusive animals. Some nice footage of a short eared dog in Peru. Rare Amazon Jungle Dog Caught on Video
The rare Tuffted ground squirrel from Borneo caught on camera : This 'Vampire' Squirrel Has The Fluffiest Tail In The World
I managed to set my camera trap up on another zebra carcass recently. Luckily the vultures didn't find it so it was visited by brown hyena, spotted hyena, leopard, hippo and genet. Hope you like the video. Visitors to zebra carcass
After 10 years, the first Clouded leopard was catched on camera at the Buxa Tiger Reserve in India ! : Clouded Leopard Photographed After Ten Years in Buxa Tiger Reserve India's Endangered
I recently set my camera trap up on a den I found and was lucky enough to have an aardvark and bat-eared fox wander past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PG3TkwIKI&list=UUr1FLAFgF4u56ZvhqTeLkTQ
Asiatic black bear caught on camera in Vietnam : WWF - Endangered Asiatic black bear caught on camera
This is possibly the weirdest series of camera trap photos I have ever seen - a large-spotted genet riding on the backs of two different bull buffaloes in South Africa. Camera traps capture a genet riding a buffalo's back | Wildlife ACT
... And it just got weirder. The genet has now been photographed riding around on several different white rhinoceroses. More camera trap selfies for the hitch-hiking genet | Wildlife ACT
that's really weird stuff. It looks to me, going by the way the genet has positioned itself in some of the photos (especially the rhino ones), that it might be using the ungulates as food-scaring devices. As in, it perches on the other animal's back as it moves along, and when something small gets flushed out, like grasshoppers or mice, the genet can see it easily and jump down and grab it. That's my theory at least.
Our project camera had been picking up a lioness with some cubs recently so I set my camera up on the same elephant trail and they came past and even investigated the camera. Enjoy Lioness with cubs
Snow leopard photo trap-pictures made on Mount Everest : Rare Snow Leopards Seen on Mount Everest – News Watch
Another report on the camera trapping study of Virachey National Park by HabitatID - species recorded include both common palm and large Indian civets, clouded leopards, sun bears, dhole, pig-tailed and stump-tailed macaques (the latter never scientifically documented in the park before) and a very interesting-looking photo of a gaur with a golden calf. 8th Month Report on Virachey Camera-Trapping Project | :: HABITATID.ORG ::
