When Zoë Luhdo and the team at conservation group Wildlife ACT checked
on camera traps in South Africa's Hluhluwe Game Reserve, they didn't
expect to see a
genet riding a buffalo.
"I can only speculate as to why this genet decided that hitch-hiking was
a good idea, but can confidently say that this is fantastically
bizarre.
"We are all wondering if this was a once-off occurrence or if this genet
will be making a habit of dropping in and catching a lift with
strangers in the dark," she says.
Wildlife ACT uses camera traps as a non-invasive form of wildlife monitoring on
a few of the Zululand Game Reserves where we are stationed. The camera
traps are placed strategically and usually in hard to navigate areas.
They are triggered by movement and use a flash at night that doesn’t
irritate the animals as is evident in this series of images.
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