Africam

[blackhole123]

Sorry if this has already been posted.

 

This is just a neat thing i ran across. Its a live feed from a watering hole in Africa. Most of the time nothing is there, but every now and then an animal will wander by.

 

http://bsalert.com/artsearch.php?fn=2&as=1398&dt=1

[ecoli]

very cool. I've seen similiar cameras from Times Square in NY and by the Western Wall in Jersalem, but not really in nature. Thanks for sharing.

[blackhole123]

hey there is some sort of dog on there right now. (hyena maybe?)

[ecoli]

there's something swimming in the pond right now... I can't tell what it is.

[Mokele]

It's a crocodile. You can tell by the IR eyeshine. They're in just about every permanent body of water in Africa, and are mostly nocturnal.

 

You can hear frogs calling. Well, a frog.

 

Mokele

[ecoli]

very cool, thanks.

[Mokele]

Wait, do you mean the moving thing, or the stationary thing near the bank. The moving thing's a bird of some kind.

[ecoli]

whatever was moving around in the water... looked white to me.

[Mokele]

Ahh, that'd be the bird. There was a croc near the left bank, but it usually just looked like a stone, until its eyes caught the IR light of the camera.

 

Mokele

[ParanoiA]

That's a really good picture for a cam a continent away and I noticed the bit rate was like 261 K bits/sec. How do they afford to do this?

[Glider]

So cool!

[JustStuit]

Awesome!! Know of any other cool ones?

[ParanoiA]

It's gone now. Says something about it being pirated.

[ecoli]

that's really lame... who would do something that like?

[blackhole123]

go to http://www.wavelit.com/?ch=Wildlife&sh=africam

 

also there are humming birds here http://www.wavelit.com/?ch=Wildlife&sh=hummingbirds

[ParanoiA]

It's a crocodile. You can tell by the IR eyeshine. They're in just about every permanent body of water in Africa, and are mostly nocturnal.

 

You can hear frogs calling. Well, a frog.

 

Mokele

 

I didn't think that was big enough to support a croc. Will they cross much land to visit waterholes and such?

[gcol]

I vaguely remember a documentary where, indeed crocs travelled considerable distances over land. I have the feeling this was in response to overpopulation, search for new breeding grounds, or the young being driven out by mature crocs. Rather vague, sorry, but I do remember something along those lines.

[Mokele]

If it's the dry season, they'll often cross long distances simply to find any water at all, and such movements are most common in smaller crocs. It may simply be a small animal waiting out the dry season.

 

Mokele

[blackhole123]

I thought id revive this, anyway heres the new link: http://www.wavelit.com/popup/playerAfricam.asp#

 

Right now there are 3 giraffes!!!

[Gilded]

Nice! Apparently I missed this the first time it was posted. Can't see anything but fireflies or something now... Although I'm waiting for a dangerous animal to appear and for someone like Nigel Marven to go and catch it by its neck or something.