Camera Trap Footage

You would think scientists would use correct terminology. Deer dont have horns, they have antlers.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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