× Over 400 species of birds are known to occur within the Park’s boundaries, and 57 mammals. Larger mammals include elephant, gaur, sambar deer, banteng, serow, and bear, indo-chinese tiger, leopard, both common and Fea’s muntjac. Malayan tapir, white-handed gibbon, dusky and banded langurs, Asian wild dog, otter, and wild boar.

Kaeng Krachan is revealing her secrets

27 Mar 2014 09:21 #1793 by WT admin
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After months of technical issues with our camera systems we have finally started to get glimpses of the cryptic inhabitants from the depths of Kaeng Krachan National Park. Kaeng Krachan is the perennial favourite amongst birders but its pristine primary forest areas are home to an amazing bio-diversity of animals, mammals in particular.

With the kind support and assistance of the Department of National Parks and the Kaeng Krachan National Park we have been placing cameras at a number of locations within Kaeng Krachan's boundaries. And the park is living up to its reputation of being one of Asia's finest National Parks. Her cryptic and exotic mammal life have been kind to us in the past months and have dained to allow we human interlopers a glimpse of their lives.

So far we have seen an amazing selection of mammals including a number we have never photographed before. It bodes well for our project and we have obtained camera trap pictures for the DNP of 17 mammal species in just a short period of time. A little preview/small selection from our 17 species so far...........

Fea's Muntjac in Kaeng KrachanThe amazing Fea's Muntjac AKA Tenasserim Muntjac (Muntiacus feae)

 

Malyan Tapir in Kaeng Krachan

 Perhaps Thailand's "strangest" looking mammal - the Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus)

 

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Kaeng Krachan Leopard Sighting
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Kaeng Krachan Sunrise
Thailand's Cutest Primate?

 

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27 Mar 2014 16:51 #1798 by Bagheera
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wow!! very happy that the issues have been sorted and that we can get down to the main business of seeing all the fantastic animals that have tripped the cameras..

All of the photos seem very well lit and of a very decent sharpness, congrats!!
The tapir is a lovely shot and the leopard is just stunning!!!!

I just compared this guy to 'my' leopard from last year and its a different individual. The leopard above has a very distinct 'zig-zag' of black on his right lower forehead.

Well done these are just superb and how awesome is this wildlife that still resides in Thailand's National Parks, this has made my day!!
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27 Mar 2014 17:10 - 28 Mar 2014 08:26 #1799 by Paul T
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Thanks Bagheera. We have "sighted" about 5 leopards so far. Here is another one that sadly was misframed, the sensors we are using are slower than our old ones so we are on a learning curve with the framing........


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28 Mar 2014 01:35 #1800 by Jos-
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Wow that's amazing! Truly outstanding shots! The first leopard shot is one of the best trap photos I've seen so far. Congrats!
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29 Mar 2014 00:12 #1803 by onflipflops
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Amazing, a Tapir! Weird creatures.

And great to hear that you've captured 5 Leopards (I suppose you mean different individuals...). Seems like Leopards are still doing quite well in these areas.
That's great news.

Keep on the good work!

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03 Apr 2014 18:17 #1808 by Paul T
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How many legs does a tapir have ? :whistle:


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03 Apr 2014 21:18 #1809 by onflipflops
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How amazing to photograph the rare Many-legged Three-eared Tapir!
Congratulations!

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20 Apr 2014 07:39 - 20 Apr 2014 07:52 #1844 by Paul T
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Sun bear week (Helarctos malayanus), including a pair.





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23 Apr 2014 22:26 #1850 by Bagheera
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oh sweet sweet shots! You definitely have this set-up nailed and it looks like a productive location aswell..nice one!
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23 Apr 2014 22:58 - 25 Apr 2014 12:28 #1853 by Paul T
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Cheers Bagheera!

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Our little tree stump was a "gold mine" last month - probably get bugger all next month, thats camera trapping. Credit must go to our guides though. We did not believe Khun Suthat when he said "here!", there followed from us a lot of umming and arring about the probability in the area, but the man is a tracking genius. I thought we were quite "knowledgable" (own opinion of course!) on tracks, but these guys truly put us to shame. Am learning a whole lot from them.


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