Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we are meeting the bushbuck. The bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) is an antelope found in sub-Saharan forests and brush. It is the least social and non-territorial of the African antelopes with adult rams actively avoiding eye […]
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This month we’re meeting an African viverrid: the African civet. The African civet (Civettictis civetta) is a medium-sized animal native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it lives in forests and savannas. Individual civets are recognized by the white stripes on their […]
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we are meeting the common hippo. Common hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius) live in sub-Saharan Africa and are the third-largest living land mammal, after elephants and white rhinos, weighing as much as 3 tons and about […]