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Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Sep 28 2008 | By: tumaren

We have three species of mongoose on Tumaren and after finally getting a picture of a Slender Mongoose (Black-tipped Mongoose) we can now present all three below.

First our only social mongoose, The Dwarf Mongoose, a diurnal small species:

Second our nocturnal species, The White-tailed mongoose:

And lastly, The Slender Mongoose a species that is for the most part solitary (but you often times see pairs together).

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Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Sep 22 2008 | By: tumaren

Not long after our images of Lolmelil on the zebra killed by the snare it appears that his lionesses made a zebra kill of their own.  This was not far away and we were able to get the following images on the carcass.  You can see the young cubs in the initial images and an adult female with them, in the third.  The adult looked at the camera in this image and the next minute, like with Lolmelil, the camera was on its back taking images of whiskers, eyes and paws (like the last image here). In the morning the camera was found 30 meters away from the kill site, covered in dust and under a bush - These moultrie cameras are definitely tough.

Tags: camera trap lions, camera-trap, laikipia conservation, lion conservation, moultrie game cameras

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Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Sep 16 2008 | By: tumaren

Lolmelil, a large male lion who we have seen on a number of occasions but never photographed finally made an appearance at a dead common zebra we found a couple weeks back. The zebra had sadly died from a snare that had slowly strangled and cut it.  Parm put the camera out and got these great images of Lolmelil.  If you look very closely in the first image you can see that he has a radio collar.  The collar was put on by the good folks at the Laikipia Predator Project . Learn more about their work here:

http://www.lionconservation.org/

He first arrived at 10:58 pm and we got this image and another.  He must have spooked from human scent because he did not return again for an hour and a half. The last image below is the last we got of lolmelil, he looked at the camera (which makes a slight red glow when using its infrared flash) and then a minute later the camera was on its back for the rest of the night - I suppose he wanted to eat in peace.

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Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Sep 13 2008 | By: tumaren

This  Beautiful Male Leopard was  photographed above our offices several weeks ago on a gerenuk kill.  Losorogol was patrolling when he found the stashed kill. Gabriel then went out to set the camera.  This male is larger than the one we photographed before and i think it is also one that i saw 1 year back near our dam.  the greatest thing about this camera is that it enables us to begin to identify the individual animals.  Good Job Losorogol and Gabriel.!

Tags: camera trap africa, camera-trap, kenya conservation, laikipia, laikipia conservation, leopard

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