From: TButynski@aol.com
Subject: Re: Karura Mammals
Date: 2 September 2015 08:39:16 GMT+3
Dear Harvey,
Thanks for including me in on this exchange.
Here are some comments on the Karura camera trap images:
1. No grey (common, Grimm's) duiker among the images. Those imbedded in your email are all suni. Karura probably too moist and dense for grey duiker. We get grey duiker virtually every night on our camera traps at Lolldaiga Hills. See: www.edgeofexistence.org/instantwild
2. Running through the images at:
here is what I see...in the order in which they appear:
- suni Nesotragus moschatus
- African clawless otter Aonyx capensis (This is the only otter known for the Nairobi area. Not a spotted-necked).
- bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
- Harvey's duiker Cephalophus harveyi (Would be nice to see more images of this duiker...particularly of the front of the face).
- ratel (honey badger) Mellivora capensis
- bushpig Potamochoerus larvatus
- Gambian giant pouched rat Cricetomys gambianus
- African civet Civettictis civetta
- Large-spotted (=blotched=rusty-spotted) genet Genetta maculata.
- Kolb's monkey Cercopithecus mitis kolbi
- White-tailed mongoose Ichneumia albicauda
- Crested porcupine Hystrix sp.? Cannot be certain of which species this is based on the photos. Both the Cape crested porcupine H. africaeaustralis and the northern crested porcupine H. cristata may be in the Nairobi area...although H. cristata seems far the more likely. Need to see a skull, or rattle quills, or a good image of the centre of the back/base of tail (is it black or is it white?).
- Kikuyu small-eared galago Otolemur garnettii kikuyuensis
- Mount Kenya guereza Colobus guereza kikuyuensis
- Mongoose. Probably slender mongoose Herpestes sanguineus....but need more photos...some showing the entire animal...including the tail.
- Side-striped jackal Canis adustus
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