In the animal kingdom, juvenile & sub-adult individuals engage in play fighting to achieve various physiological & mental advantages, including enhanced muscular strength, refined coordination, and overall physical performance optimization.

We hope that your week hasn't been as busy as his!! The Primate and Predator Project wishes you a restful week-end😊

Here are three of the smallest leopard cubs that were captured on the PPP camera traps. These images were captured in 2020 & we are delighted that two of the three leopards shown here, are still alive. Cub mortality in leopards is extremely high due to a variety of reasons.

#Feline Friday presents a handsome, big, wild male leopard who roams the Western Soutpansberg mountains. The @PrimatePredator camera traps offer a privileged glimpse into the secret lives of these magnificent creatures, and we are extremely fortunate to be able to study them.

This thick-tailed bushbaby had a rather busy night, posing for @primate_predator camera traps. Bushbabies are known for a common behaviour they do called 'urine washing', whereby they coat their hands and feet in urine which can assist with grip when climbing. #wildlifeWednesday

This footage was taken from a 'scratch cam' that PPP had up. These camera traps were strategically placed at known leopard scratch trees. There are various reasons why leopards might scratch on trees & these include marking territory, maintaining their claws & scent communication

During COVID, PPP staff continued with the samango monkey behavioural observations, in an extremely quiet mountain. I was following the samango monkeys, in thick,tall vegetation. The samango monkeys burst out in alarm calls & I saw two crowned eagles flying overhead. Very special

This samango monkey looks like it is ready for the week-end😁 Happy week-end everyone from Primate and Predator Project. #samangomonkey #samangomonkeys #conservation #soutpansbergmountains #soutpansberg

All of these images were taken in a single day of fieldwork, starting off with maneuvering through kite spider webs, tip toeing over a horned baboon spider, admiring a beautiful Garden Commodore butterfly and ending off with a scorpion in the camera case. #Conservation #animals

It is always amazing to see how many different animals move past one camera station. This is a snapshot of some of the different species moving past a specific camera. Primate and Predator Project are extremely fortunate to work in such a beautiful, special location.

The end of an era! Cyrintha and Chris have been part of the Primate & Predator Project since 2018 and both have made enormous contributions to leading the project as well as becoming valuable and trusted members of the communities in the Soutpansberg Mountains.