Camera Trap Footage

Having watched and enjoyed the recent video of wildlife in the Grebo-Krahn National Park (see here: Wildlife of Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia captured with camera traps) I have fallen back down the rabbit hole of camera trap compilations on YouTube.

- This 2020 compilation was filmed in Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire. It shows nine primate species (Western chimpanzee, sooty mangabey, four guenons and three colobus species), leopard, Johnston's genet, seven species of duiker, forest buffalo, bongo, pygmy hippopotamus, elephant, giant pangolin and four species of bird (white-breasted guineafowl, great blue turaco, white-crested hornbill and white-necked picathartes).

- This video comes from 2015 and was filmed in Comoe National Park in Cote d'Ivoire. A total of forty-seven species are shown, including six species of bird (highlight probably the buff-spotted woodpecker), five rodents, a pangolin (labelled as long-tailed; I think it may be a tree pangolin), fifteen artiodactyls (comprising five duikers, kob, waterbuck, hartebeest, buffalo, bongo, bushbuck, three species of swine and hippopotamus), eleven carnivores (comprising four mongooses, two genets - I think the species labelled as common genet is actually a pardine genet, African civet, African palm civet, spotted hyaena, golden cat and leopard), forest elephant and eight species of primate (including Senegal bushbaby, six species of monkey and Western chimpanzees using tools such as leaf sponges and ant-fishing sticks).
 
An ocelot has been filmed on a camera trap attacking and killing a white-nosed coati. The camera was positioned at a large bat box, being used in a reforestation area in Costa Rica, that is being replicating a natural large tree cavity.

 
I have just seen this video, a collection of clips showing an ocelot attacking a Linnaeus' two-toed sloth at a salt lick in Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Ecuador.

Diego Mosquera on Instagram: "This is the craziest thing you will see today! Check out this incredible video obtained by @camill.bd and Proyecto Primates of a predation attempt of an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) on a Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) on a saltlick at @tiputiniusfq . Saltlicks can be very dangerous for some species, especially during the day, when they are exposed to predators. We do not know the outcome of this event, but for sure the sloth fought hard! . #ocelot #wildcats #twotoedsloth #leopardus #mammals #rainforest #nature #choloepus #biodiversity #cameratrap #conservation #amazonia #yasuní #tiputini #predation #minerallick #saltlick"
 
I have just seen this montage of camera trap footage taken from Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - the species filmed there include:
  • Giant pangolin
  • Congo peafowl
  • Leopard
  • A species of cusimanse
  • Angolan colobus monkey
  • Forest elephant
  • A species of genet
  • Allen's swamp monkey
  • African golden cat
  • Sitatunga
  • Four-toed elephant shrew
  • Bonobo
The animal I am personally most interested in is the footage of the aardvark, first appearing from around 1:17 in the video. A book I have at home (Candid Creatures, a book about camera trapping) made a reference to aardvarks in the Congo appearing very different to the plains aardvark and possibly even being a separate species, and the video shows that perfectly - the ears of the camera-trapped animal are incredibly short for an aardvark, just for starters.

This video can be viewed here:
 
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