Blog posts tagged as Camera Traps
Monitoring the invisible on the Leopard Survey
Camera trap images afford us the ability to witness aspects of the hidden lives of this incredible predator, which we must fight to conserve. In...
Secretary Bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
The Leopard Survey team was out in the field checking cameras when we all spotted an animal in the distance. Tucked away in the tall grasses of...
Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta): Sex, Social Structure & Conservation Status
Curious looking creatures with an awkward gait, these Spotted Hyena looked somewhat startled as they walked past the camera trap. Spotted Hyena...
First Sighting of an Unusual Animal During the Ithala Leopard Survey
Clicking through camera trap folders and then different date folders in search of priority species, is one of the tasks that the volunteers of the...
Camera Trapping and its Role in Priority Species Monitoring
Did you know that the first “camera traps” (remotely triggered cameras to capture wildlife imagery without a human presence) were used in the...
The Secretive Seven Caught on Camera
Everyone knows and longs for sightings of the “Big 5”, but have you ever heard of or seen the Secretive Seven? They are the Aardvark,...
Aardwolf on Ithala Game Reserve – First sighting in over 2 years!
The Panthera Leopard Survey, run in collaboration with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and Wildlife ACT, captured this rare and exciting image of an Aardwolf...
It’s not a pig, it’s not a bear… it’s the only species of its kind
A species that has baffled taxonomic classification, and its common name not doing much to aid in the confusion: The isambane (Zulu), antbear...