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We hope that your week hasn't been as busy as his!! The Primate and Predator Project wishes you a restful week-end😊

Here are three of the smallest leopard cubs that were captured on the PPP camera traps. These images were captured in 2020 & we are delighted that two of the three leopards shown here, are still alive. Cub mortality in leopards is extremely high due to a variety of reasons.

#Feline Friday presents a handsome, big, wild male leopard who roams the Western Soutpansberg mountains. The @PrimatePredator camera traps offer a privileged glimpse into the secret lives of these magnificent creatures, and we are extremely fortunate to be able to study them.

This thick-tailed bushbaby had a rather busy night, posing for @primate_predator camera traps. Bushbabies are known for a common behaviour they do called 'urine washing', whereby they coat their hands and feet in urine which can assist with grip when climbing. #wildlifeWednesday

This samango monkey looks like it is ready for the week-end😁 Happy week-end everyone from Primate and Predator Project. #samangomonkey #samangomonkeys #conservation #soutpansbergmountains #soutpansberg

All of these images were taken in a single day of fieldwork, starting off with maneuvering through kite spider webs, tip toeing over a horned baboon spider, admiring a beautiful Garden Commodore butterfly and ending off with a scorpion in the camera case. #Conservation #animals

It is always amazing to see how many different animals move past one camera station. This is a snapshot of some of the different species moving past a specific camera. Primate and Predator Project are extremely fortunate to work in such a beautiful, special location.

It is always extremely exciting to arrive home after a long fieldday and see what animals the camera traps have managed to capture. Here is a sequence of a young leopard, in it's natural habitat, just being a leopard❤ #leopard #leopardlove #globalleopardconference #conservation

1/2...The Primate Predator Project permanent camera trapping grid is setup to optimize the capture of leopard images. The cameras are set at a specific height above the ground and placed across the landscape to maximise the possibilty of leopards passing by them.

There is not alot that surprises us, when checking camera trap images, but this one sure did. When fellow researchers play an April fools joke on you🤪Thank you to Lajuma Research Center for the effort you put into making us laugh!!

Primate Predator Project have 30 permanent camera stations, across 12 properties in the Western Soutpansberg mountains. Primate Predator Project are extremely grateful to all of the landowners that continue to support the project. Thank you to each and everyone of you.

Primate Predator Project had the privalidge of attending & presenting at the 1st Alldays Wildlife Research Conference held at Makoppas Nest over the week-end. It was a great networking experience for managers & students. Thank you to AWCRC for organizing it.

Primate Predator Project is excited by this capture of a leopard with two cubs. This video was taken on a students personal camera trap. We have subsequently placed up another camera trap, to see if we can get further captures of this family, in order to identify this female.

Primate and Predator Project have been out & about servicing the camera traps. We have experienced different weather conditions, from cold & misty, to 28 degrees celcius, all in one day. PPP's trusted mascot accompanied these trips, to ensure the students are following protocol😃