Studying African forest elephants from your sofa

[DavidBrown]

You can help study forest elephants in the African rain forest without leaving your sofa. A researcher named Annabelle Cardoso has set up a series of camera traps to catch elephant movements through the forest in Gabon. Citizen-scientists can help identify what is in the thousands of pictures. Most of them are vegetation, but in 30 minutes of doing this I spotted many elephants, a mandrill, red river hogs, and the butt of a forest buffalo. It is addictive.

Citizen scientists around the world are monitoring elephants in Gabon via camera traps — and you can too

 

[animal_expert01]

Here's the actual website link Zooniverse. I agree with DavidBrown in that it is very entertaining!

 

[birdsandbats]

There are a lot of projects like this on Zooniverse, but I have not seen any with so many pictures of nothing but plants. Still addicting though.

 

[TheMightyOrca]

I love these kinds of things! A few years ago I did an African one, baboons were the most common animal but there was a lot of other stuff as well, once in a while you'd get an elephant!

 

[birdsandbats]

I love these kinds of things! A few years ago I did an African one, baboons were the most common animal but there was a lot of other stuff as well, once in a while you'd get an elephant!

Was it Wildcam Gorongosa? I spent hours on there. There are also lots of others, like Snapshot Wisconsin and Amazoncam Tambopata.

 

[Dassie rat]

It could be called a 'sofari' and gives a different meaning to the phrase 'the elephant in the room'.