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

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.

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

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

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

very cool, thanks.

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

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

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

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?

So cool!

Awesome!! Know of any other cool ones?

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

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

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

 

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

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?

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.

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

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

 

Right now there are 3 giraffes!!!

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.