Sunday, June 24, 2012

camera trapping

As part of this trip to Ecuador, we brought some camera traps. These were actually part of one of the student projects. We had two of them and we bated them with bananas mostly, and one chicken. We got some amazing pics and will definitely be doing this again.

Here is an agouti in the cloud forest.

And here are a couple of pics of a Tyra in the rainforest. Cool beast!


Another pis of an agouti, this time in the rain forest.

And here is our most photographed subject, the paca. These things must love bananas because they spent lots of time eating the ones we put out.

Delicious bananas!

Great tinamou! Not eating bananas but still a bird thats hard to see.

More pacas.




This is a mother Andean fox and her pup. They were attracted to the chicken we put out (bought at the market and already de-feathered, etc.

The pup is kind of cute.

And here is the highlight, a jaguar in the rainforest!!! Never expected to get this pic. This trap was set up 200m from the station and the camera was checked 10min after the pics were taken, amazing!



And finally another agouti saying goodbye.

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