First Photo in the Wild: one of the world’s most secretive mammals photographed in Togo

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Great photos. The technological advances in camera traps are giving us views of wildlife that would be unthinkable two decades ago.

Absolutely! For the first time we can see how different this species actually are. It resembles the Maxwell's Duiker externaly, but the striking superciliary (over the eyebrow) line is much more distinctive. The drawing in the HMW2 was not perfectly accurate and Kingdon didn't include a drawing in the Mammals of Africa vol.6 or in the new edition of the Kingdon's field guide from 2015.
 
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WildCRU researchers have captured the first ever images of Walter’s duiker (Philantomba walteri) alive in the wild

First Photo in the Wild: one of the world’s most secretive mammals photographed in WildCRU’s Togo survey | WildCRU


Camera trap survey of mammals in the Fazao‐Malfakassa National Park, Togo, West Africa:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12856

This news was already mentioned in another thread ( Camera Trap Footage ) , post 234 ).
 
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