How difficult would Zebra Duiker be to photograph in Cote D’Ivoire?
The habitat area should theoretically be accessible for photography… but somehow all the pictures I see were taken from 1990-2005 or earlier.
Surprised none were taken more recently
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Ben S
It’s the least common Duiker at Tai NP (at least in the vicinity of Camp Chimpanzee), but I think you’d have a good chance to photograph one if you dedicated a week to it. They are easier to find in the dry season than in the wet season (which is when I visited). I’d recommend asking Kevin where they’ve been seen recently and setting up a blind near a fruiting tree.
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Dedennedillo
What I don’t understand then…
if it is entirely possible to photograph the species in the wild then why hasn’t anyone done so…
unless perhaps it just is that most mammalwatchers are old enough to have seen the few captive zebra duikers in USA and Germany that they are content with their life’s ZD fix.-
Ben S
Very few mammalwatchers have visited Tai (something that should change!). Those that do usually have multiple targets with different habitats and activity patterns: Pygmy Hippo, Liberian Mongoose, Jentink’s and Zebra Duikers, Johnston’s Genet, African Golden Cat, Pel’s and Lesser Anomalures, Pohle’s Fruit Bat, primates, etc. Photographing one was a top goal of mine on my last trip to the area, but I visited in the wet season (I like herps, too) and duiker numbers were low as there weren’t any fruiting trees in the immediate area. See my trip report here: https://www.mammalwatching.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TaiReportReduced.pdf
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Jon Hall
Have you seen the reports that Charles Foley and I wrote from a trip a year ago? They should be helpful. Bottom line a zebra duiker saw us but not vice versa.