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FEATURE - Nachts am Wasserloch in Afrika
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Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) drinking at night, Zimanga private game reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Camera trap photographs by Blair Roberts, Kenya - 2011
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Peek-A-Boo: The World Through The Lens Of A Kenyan Camera Trap
You're wandering the plains of Kenya and you spot a mysterious metal box. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself having a quick peek, would you?
That was seemingly the reaction of all creatures great and small when ecology student Blair Roberts placed camera traps in the wildlife-rich region.
The 26-year-old wanted to study the feeding patterns of Thomson gazelle, but found her equipment captured some amazing - and hilarious - sights.
A cheeky Patas monkey, already an unusual-looking species, appears almost alien-like as it moves so near to the camera that cannot focus.
Similarly, in a side-splitting trio of images, an olive baboon takes such a close peek its nose nearly touches the lens.
In another picture, a juvenile olive baboon appears to cast a dismissive glance sideways at the camera as it follows it mother.
Other highlights include a Jungle Book-style herd of elephants sauntering by, a fearsome rhino looks about to charge at the camera, and, at one point, a pair of inquisitive cattle herders stopping to peer into the lens.
There are also cameo appearances from impala, zebra, oryx and, seeming slightly shy, a giraffe and ostrich that only poke their heads into the frame.
Night-vision images reveal buffalo, hyena and Jackson's hartebeest - along with an African elephant shortly before it knocked the camera over and bent the support pole to a 45 degree angle.
Blair, from Louisville, Kentucky, uses the images as part of dissertation research in her fourth year as a PhD student in Princeton University's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program.
She has set up ten heat- and motion- triggered cameras in steel cases on four plains at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya. When activated they take three photos in quick successi...
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African Buffalo, syncerus caffer, Adult standing on Long Grass, Masai Mara Park in Kenya
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African Buffalo, syncerus caffer, Herd and Landscape, Hell's Gate Park in Kenya
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African Buffalo, syncerus caffer, Calf standing on Dry Grass, Hell's Gate Park in Kenya
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FEATURE - Nachts am Wasserloch in Afrika
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ann Steve Toon/REX/Shutterstock (7555706b)
Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) drinking at night, Zimanga private game reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Animals, Africa - 2016
(FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
(c) Dukas