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Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Jan 04 2009 | By: tumaren

Here are the latest images of our friendly Honey Badger or Ratel who has been raiding Parm’s  bee hive he has set up behind our offices.  Below are the pics Parm got of the culprit. We need to  experiment further with baffles and other ways of discouraging our friend from destroying more hives.

Tags: camera-trap, honey badger, honeybadger, ratel

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

When it rains it pours - Aardwolves, that is (we are still waiting for a good rainfall).  These images were taken after we flushed another Aardwolf at dusk from his burrow and set the camera to record his return.  We photographed not one byt two adults going in and out of the hole and we suspect that they have pups inside.

Notice their long necks, their distinctive shape and their small frame - these are all cues to distinguish them easily from a Striped Hyena.

Tags: , Aardwolf, camera-trap

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