The Kamonande Leopard Project: Tuesday 22 June 2010

New day and new challenges, but first, we had to do our rounds...
... checking the roads for fresh tracks, visiting the camera traps to see who was around...

On our way looking for fresh tracks....

Let's first see what the camera traps recorded?

Warthog taking the easy route again...

Blue Wilde beast doing their inspection...
It is amazing to see how alert they are by immediately
recognising a foreign object in their habitat.

What a nice shot of the Black backed jackal...

...brown hyena. Is it Floppy ear or another one? Difficult to
tell, but it is definitely a great find...

A black backed jackal, early in the morning...

... zebras grazed along...

Another Blue Wilde Beast... giving the camera trap a
suspicious look ☺

Strange predator species on wheels... ☺
(However, still the most dangerous predator species on
earth, which is responsible for the killing of hundreds
of thousands people and millions of animals every year.)

We got a black backed jackal and the brown hyena.

But what about the tracks we discovered

Various black backed jackal tracks - there are many of them around.
Brown hyena tracks, also at various locations of more than three different animals.
Civet tracks - also at various locations
Caracal tracks - at two different locations
Leopard tracks - the same individuals tracks that saw the previous three days, but at a different location.

These leopard tracks were excellent samples. hard ground but with a soft layer of top sand.
These were identified as the same leopard's track that we saw the previous three days.