Lots of these striped guys around puddles at night
(Thanks to Mark-Oliver Roedel for the ID)
Found this little jewel on a leaf in the forest, unfortunately jumped away before I could get a better shot. Blue eyes?!
(Thanks to Mark-Oliver Roedel for the ID)
Some sort of tinker barbet (yes BirdLife treats the african barbets in the toucan family which sort of bugs me)
one of the only common birds in the understory
need to ID this guy
widely sold as escargot in markets, its really bush meat
Found in the forest during the day. Tentative ID based on a similar critter pictured here:
http://www.sareptiles.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=24409
(Thanks to Mark-Oliver Roedel for the ID)
This was really interesting. This poor little mangabey was separated from its mom and troupe and was the only mangabey in a group of guenons and colobus, my guide who has studied mangabey's for 15 years had never seen this.
These striped caterpillars were devouring this plant
One of these in my room at night (with no tail), no electricity so you wonder the incentive to be on walls without insects attracted to lights
(Thanks to Mark-Oliver Roedel for the ID)
beautiful little 'cli cli cli' call like running your finger down a comb.
(Thanks to Mark-Oliver Roedel for the ID)
These beautiful geckos ran around the walls of the research station during the day. About 3 inches long.
(Thanks to Mark-Oliver Roedel for the ID who also says its a male)
I could be wrong here, but they were in noisy little groups like the African babblers I've seen, sorry for the bad photo
I was extremely privileged to be able to be the first American to enter the park since the new Disney Chimpanzee movie was released. But because I didn't undergo the required 5 day quarantine before seeing the chimps (to avoid passing them fatal respiratory viruses), I was not permitted to enter the Tai Chimp Project area. We were looking for sooty mangabeys in the Tai Monkey Project area about 4km away from the Chimp Project, and the chimps came in to hunt Red Colobus. This is the same group that was filmed in the movie - can't say how lucky this sighting was and what a privilege it was.
Subspecies P. badius badius. These guys were going crazy with alarm calls because they were being hunted by chimps.
Have to remind myself which bulbul occurs in CI
