microrobert
05-27-2013, 02:26 PM
Camera Traps Capture Rare and Beautiful Javan Leopards
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Javan Leopard
Camera traps placed in the Javan rainforest have captured striking images of beautiful and critically endangered Javan leopards. While resting, grooming, and rolling around, one of the leopards resembles a bigger, spotted version of the average house cat; the others move quickly through the forest.
Researcher Age Kridalaksana, with the Center for International Forestry Research (http://www.cifor.org/), placed 30 cameras in Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park in West Java, letting them record rainforest scenes for one month. When Kridalaksana came back to retrieve the images, he found that among the thousands of images of deer and civets and birds were three Javan leopards — two spotted, one black.
Camera Traps Capture Rare and Beautiful Javan Leopards | Wired Science | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/javan-leopards-on-camera/)
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2013/05/Leopard2-e1369167616313-300x212.jpg
Javan Leopard
Camera traps placed in the Javan rainforest have captured striking images of beautiful and critically endangered Javan leopards. While resting, grooming, and rolling around, one of the leopards resembles a bigger, spotted version of the average house cat; the others move quickly through the forest.
Researcher Age Kridalaksana, with the Center for International Forestry Research (http://www.cifor.org/), placed 30 cameras in Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park in West Java, letting them record rainforest scenes for one month. When Kridalaksana came back to retrieve the images, he found that among the thousands of images of deer and civets and birds were three Javan leopards — two spotted, one black.
Camera Traps Capture Rare and Beautiful Javan Leopards | Wired Science | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/javan-leopards-on-camera/)