Camera Trap Footage

this may be on the thread somewhere already, but if not: Wildlife Thailand - Kaeng Krachan bio-diversity hot spot - Wildlife of Thailand

A camera trap at Kaeng Krachan in Thailand records 23 mammal species - including five cat species - on one trail in six months. There's a list on the link, and the photos of most of them (but not the moon rat sadly). If you scroll down the thread on the link there are more photos, including the golden cat and clouded leopard.
 
There is an article here about camera trapping surveys done by Chester Zoo in Gashaka Gumti National Park in Nigeria. Among the species photographed or filmed in the park are Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees, giant pangolins, leopards, African golden cat, red river hogs and a species of genet (which could be potentially interesting, considering the national park's close positioning to the known range of the Vulnerable crested genet).

A bit disappointing to see the factual error regarding the number of pangolin species (it says there are six species instead of eight) in the article.

Wildlife secrets of Nigeria's wilderness
 
There is an article here about camera trap videos recorded on an FSC-certified sustainable forestry site in Quintana Roo on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Twelve different species are recorded (all from a period of time in November and December 2017), comprising:

- Margay
- Ocelot
- Grey fox
- White-nosed coati
- Baird's tapir
- White-tailed deer
- Central American agouti
- Lowland paca
- Northern tamandua
- Great curassow
- Ocellated turkey
- Plain chachalaca

Camera trap videos capture biodiversity of conservation area in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula
 
I hope it's appropriate to share our own footage here, since the focus seems to be on footage from researchers at the moment.

We recently put a camera trap up in in a patch of woods just beind our neighborhood. At first not much of interest came up, just a grey squirrel and a cardinal. But I was extremely surprised to find this in the most recent batch!

7/31/2018 - Snellville, GA - Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) - YouTube

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Footage from a camera trap, at the edge of a large pond in a wooded trail behind our house.

The armadillo also came around the prior night around the same time, but the footage from then was very distant compared to here. Our family's lived here for almost 17 years now and this is the first we've seen of armadillos in the area, so I'm really excited :)
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but I have just seen this article about camera trapping in Wapusk National Park in Canada.

The research has found all three of North America's bear species now co-occur in the park. While polar bears still make up 90% of the bears photographed, there is evidence that grizzly bears are possibly denning in the area and an American black bear was photographed passing a camera trap just three hours after a polar bear had passed through.

More information is included in the article below:
Camera traps and customary wisdom help redefine bear conservation
 
Just found this older camera trap photograph that I thought I would post here, with four species of mustelid in a single shot - polecat, stone marten, badger and pine marten. The photo was taken somewhere in the Netherlands. Not sure what bait is hanging from the tree but it must be fairly effective to attract four carnivores into frame simultaneously.

http://www.rewildingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Martersklein.jpg
 
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