PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY: New Gray-Faced Sengi
New Sengi | |
Captive gray-faced sengi Rhynchocyon chrysopygus Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Photo: F. Rovero, 19 March 2006 |
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Gray-faced sengi Note snare scar across thigh. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G.B. Rathbun, 19 March 2006 |
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Museum study skins of the four gray-faced sengi voucher specimens. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Photo: Dong Lin, 17 October 2006 |
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Camera Trapping | |
Arafat Mtui, of the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Center, training field assistants to assemble camera traps. Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: F. Rovero 10 June 2006 |
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Arafat Mtui and Francesco Rovero, protected from big game by an armed ranger, positioning a camera trap in the forest. Mwanihana forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: J. Sanderson, July 2002 |
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Camera-trapped gray-faced sengi. Mwanihana Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: F. Rovero, 21 June 2006 |
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Expedition | |
Expedition members with the first gray-faced sengi captured. Left to right - Amos Lugami, Francesco Rovero, Andrew Perkin, Charles Leonard, David Ribble, Galen Rathbun (with sengi), Ruben Mwakisoma, and Amani Kitegile. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: F. Rovero, 18 March 2006 |
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Porters on eight-hour hike carrying equipment and supplies through grass and braken fern habitat before reaching the forest. Udekwa Village, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 12 March 2006 |
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David Ribble on path through dense forest, which is gray-faced sengi habitat, near base camp. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 19 March 2006 |
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Kitchen, laboratory, and rain shelter at base camp. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 19 March 2006 |
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Charles Leonard, David Ribble, Galen Rathbun, and Francesco Rovero at dinner. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 24 March 2006 |
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Andrew Perkin waiting (wishing) for the daily rain to stop. Ndundulu Foret, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 24 March 2006 |
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Photography | |
Photographing a gray-faced sengi required a photographer (F. Rovero) and sengi wrangler (G. Rathbun). To ensure that none of the valuable animals escaped, the tent was zipped shut while shooting. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: D. Ribble, 18 March 2006 |
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Expedition members stand guard around a photography corral in a forest glade during an unusually sunny afternoon. Francesco Rovero and a gray-faced sengi are both inside the corral, which is covered with netting to prevent the sengi from leaping out and escaping. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 23 March 2006 |
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Francesco Rovero at work with a gray-faced sengi in the photo corral. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 23 March 2006 |
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Specimen Preparation | |
David Ribble pointing out the noose of a snare (green nylon twine) set on an indistinct path through the forest that might be used by a gray-faced sengi. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G. Rathbun, 19 March 2006 |
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Galen Rathbun, Francesco Rovero, and David Ribble about to prepare a gray-faced sengi specimen. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: A. Perkin, 23 March 2006 |
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Andrew Perkin and Francesco Rovero with three museum study skins of gray-faced sengis prepared for drying. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: F. Rovero, 20 March 2006 |
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Daily rain and high humidity in the forest required a make-shift oven over a campfire to dry the gray-faced sengi museum study skins. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Photo: G.Rathbun, 25 March 2006 |
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Giant Sengi Comparison | |
Various different forms of giant sengi study skins in their cabinet drawers. The Natural History Museum, London Photo: G. Rathbun, 30 March 2006 |
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Selected study skins of different forms of giant sengi. Top four in near row are gray-faced sengis. The Natural History Museum, London Photo: G. Rathbun, 30 March 2006 |
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Representatives of the four species of giant sengi: (a) gray-faced sengi (camera trap image), (b) black-and-rufous sengi (captive), (c) checkered sengi (camera trap image), and (d) golden-rumped sengi (captive). Plate from Rovero, F. & G.B. Rathbun. 2006. A potentially new giant sengi (elephant-shrew) from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of East African Natural History 95:111-115. |
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Foraging | |
Camcorder trap video sequence of a gray-faced sengi foraging on a game trail through the forest. Ndundulu Forest, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania Video: Trevor Jones, 4 June 2006, 1207 hours |
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