We have new toys on Kololo, two camera traps.

A Camera trap works on a motion sensor, and takes a photo every time something moves in front of the lens.

The whole idea behind the cameras is to see how many predators occur on the reserve and also to view nocturnal animals like your Leopard, Hyena, Bush pig, Civets, Genets, Jackal and your Honey badger, Serval.

But the big question will be how to get a photo on 2000 ha of land.  If  a Leopard catches an animal and we find the carcass we will install the camera next to the carcass on a tree and leave it there for a day or two.

With your antelope species we always put out salt on the reserve because we don’t have any natural salts on the farm, by doing that we can install the camera next to the salt.

The camera has a build in red light that switches on first but slowly then the camera will take a photo.  A red light does not harm a animals eyes.

We will update the photos on Kololo web site  once  a week with new exciting photos we took with our camera traps.

If you look at the photo, an Eland cow died and a lot off animals had a feast. The carnivores came first for the meat that will be Leopard, Jackal, Civets, Genets, Caracal and Honey Badger and then the Bush pig and Warthog came for some maggots and after that hyenas cleaned the bones. We are still waiting for the vultures to clean up the place.

I hope you will enjoy the photos as much as we do.