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This is the coolest site. There is a live feed to a water hole in Africa. I spent about 5 minutes watching a duck and then suddenly a herd of Zebra showed up!!!

You need sound turned on. Lots of great birds and other creatures.

The camera changes angles so sometimes you see on the other side of the water hole.  patience is the key :)

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That's pretty cool. I'm looking at it now. No animals but it's raining. I can see the drops hitting the surface of the water.

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Yeah :)  I was watching the sun rising and the sky getting brighter.  The large herd of zebra moved on.  

I got this link from another site I'm a member of and some people saw lions and baboons.

I bookmarked it and will check back there later.  It must be quite different to see at night.. Probably just the glow of eyes in the dark.

EDIT:  My cats are entertained by the bird sounds,  LOL  I turned up the volume a bit and their ears perked up and their eyes got huge!!!!  LOL

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Yeah, well just a second ago I saw a crested bird of some kind drinking from it. and in the relfection in the water I could see a bird in the top of a tree.

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Slow morning at the ol'watering hole!!!

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That is soooo.... 'WILD'..... just saw a couple of beetles or sumfink crawl across the ground... and the 2 monkeys behind the bushes was hilarious... if a bit rude ;:)

Oooh dickie birds, drinking at the water hole...

Dam...I will be watching this for ever now...

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lol, it's addicting!

It's a bit slow it seems.  The zebra that I saw were really awesome!  There was about 25 or more. 

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oooh 2 deers there right NOW...!!

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There are some gazelle there now.

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sorry... I don't know a antelope from a cantalope... dozens of gazells now...!

One just burped real loud... he he

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I am watching it religiously now... well it is Sunday ;)

It certainly is addictive... can't wait for the lions to arrive for their breakfast...!

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Looks like the Zebra are back, or coming back. I see one.

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Is that what they are... I thought they was donkeys in pyjamas...!

Awesome stuff...

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Too bad there's no croc in the water. Then we'd get some real excitement...

 

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:thumbupboth::thumbupboth::thumbupboth::thumbupboth::thumbupboth:

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Some different animals now. Not sure what they are though.  Look like some kind of buffalo or ox.

EDIT:  I looked it up, they are Wildebeests!  I've never seen those before.

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Acadia, those are gnu's (a.k.a. wildebeest) .

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Bison...? Oh no... thats sumfink you wash your hands in

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Quote - Acadia, those are gnu's (a.k.a. wildebeest) .

Thanks!  Lots of animals I'm not familiar with.

This site is totally fascinating!   

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STOP IT..! STOP IT...! Them woodpeckers are eating that poor deer   :(

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Well, I'm heading to bed to read for a bit. and then sleep. 

I'll check back at the watering hole later. Night must be amazing. I imagine the big cats, elephants and hyenas probably come out then.  Probably too hot during the day for them.

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For me its just showing a lightly wooded area, no water in sight. I could swear the camera panned to the left once. Who's driving the camera?

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you have to wait a while... I guess the camera is heat sensitive and motion detector activated

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Thanks for the link Acadia.

** I've just seen a couple of wilderbeast. The sounds of the birds are amazing!**

Sadly I get an error..cant see squat...are there any other media players that will pick this up besides Windows media? My media player just died I guess{and I refuse to get the new beta version 11 as they want me to switch from SP1 to SP2 for XP Home}..I used to watch the eagle nest..this would be so cool to see :sad:

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Great site! Here's another: http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/index.html DB

Great site - thanks for the link :)

Quote - Isn't there a community OT forum here at renderosity for threads like this?

No, but there should be!

However, maybe seeing all the great types of animals will give some modelers some ideas. So it's not entirely off topic :)

It's night there now and I think it's frogs, but man, talk about annoying sounds! LOL  I'd be totally beside myself if I was camping there, not only because of the noise, but the darkness and not being able to see what is making those noises!

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Quote - Great site! Here's another: http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/index.html DB

Thanks for that link!  Unfortunately I can't view it because I don't have "Real Player" and that's one program that I learned the hard way to never have on my computer.  I installed it once and it took over control of all of my media files and changed all of the icons, and I couldn't get any of it back even after I uninstalled Real Player. I had to reformat to get back what it changed :(

I wish they allowed another way to view besides "Real Player"

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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It's 06:49 am there now and all I've seen & heard are birds, but I must say I'm very impressed with the throughput of the streaming. Not at all "herky-jerky." Interesting to just have it running in the background to have a constant bird track ambience in the room. Cool one Acadia. THX!

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yup... its very cool... be patient... you get to see all sortsa animuls...

The bird sounds are very therapeutic... I have had it on since Acadia posted the link... but the frog sounds around midnight last night... were horrific... had to mute the sound

 

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LOL, yes they were quite annoying!!  They showed a close up of one of the frogs. It was the size of a dinner plate!!!! I've never seen such a large frog in my life! They panned into the trees and it was sitting in the bushes.  No wonder it was so loud, it was big!!

I saw a hyena today and I think an Impala, and what looked like a raccoon, but not sure about that one.  Two friends said they saw a leopard, but I missed that :(

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Aaahhh... that will have been the... Sundaylunchusplateypusus frog... they can get quite rowdy..

I saw a couple of hyenas... they were only there to laugh at the other animuls... seen loadsa impalas and all sorts of species of wilderbeasties... missed the leotard... but lotsa donkeys in pj's....

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That second link showed a crocodile a few minutes ago.

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I just saw on another forum that there were some baby zebras yesterday between 4 and 5pm CDT.

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Acadia: yes there were.... 3-4 of them... very playful... one slipped and fell in the water...

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Last night the herd of zebras that was there had one baby. And this evening (local sunrise), just as it was getting light a herd of zebras came by

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The Nat Geog one has some sorta turkey things on now... but its very windy and the camera keeps getting blown about

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There's an elephant there now.

And those turkey things are guinea fowls.

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Just isnt fair :sad: I dont get to watch...~cries~

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What about RealPlayer or QuickTime...?

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The National Geographic one is much more active. Early this morning there was a herd of elephants that spent a couple hours there, and there was a bunch of baboons too.

I keep hearing a lion in the background but i haven't seen it yet.

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I saw some zebras a few minutes ago.

 

Not many animuls today... all I have seen in last couple of hours was... some pigeons... a birdie having a bath... an empty beer can... a Big Mac box... and a condom hanging in a bush....

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Oh noooo...! Its Frog's Chorus time again...! Mute... mute... mute...!!!

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Can the National Geographic one be viewed in something else other than "Real Player"? 

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This is so cool!  I have it minimized at work...yes, I'm doing my job, it just gets boring. :tt2:

I saw a rhino walk up and take a few gulps.  That mic on the cam is really sensitive!  You could hear the rhino snorting!

Thanks for the link, Lady A.

I downloaded and installed Real Player so I could watch the National Geographic one too.  I made sure I went through the file list and only gave it permission to play anything with "Real" in front of it.

I go to the National Geographic page and all that happens is that it shows Real Player as "loading".  I figure after 10 minutes nothing was going to happen, so I closed the window.

Why doesn't the Real Player show the live feed?

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I don't know. For me it takes anout 30 seconds to load. I hope you're able to get it to load, because this cam is definitely, by a longshot, the better of the two.

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Do you need a browser plug in for this? I just get a red cross as if its a missing image

 

The National Geographic site requires Real Player, the 1st site comes OK for me, so not sure if anything required for that one.

I get an error for the africa one...."Cannot create Directplay"..or something sill like that...i even did their test they have up and it tells me all is well.....:sad:

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For some reason the National Geographic one is working for me now. 

It's really dark there though and I can't see much of anything.  The other site is more well lit.  Not as many noisy bull frogs through, hehe

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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wait till it gets light, that national geographic one is very active at times. Me and my son are using these cams for his homeschool by observing animal behavior (such as the way the other animals keep their distance when the elephants are around, or the way the different animals interact with each other, etc.)

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The dang frogs are hideous!!!!! They go quiet & they really get busy LOL.....THE NG site has less frogs & more crickets etc etc

Grrr!  There were a couple of Rhino on the africam.com site, but I guess the camera guy is having coffee!  They didn't pan the camera and all you could see were their heads off the right side of the screen :(

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10 Oct 06 - 0400 Just saw two rhinos ambling around the far side of the waterhole. I could also hear something walking around & snorting & sniffing right by the camera and then it took a leak!! Never did see it but got a good laugh!

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acadia,

you must have just missed it. they were off screen on the left and then slowly walked around the waterhole eating. two of them. I'm hazarding a guess that it was a mother and juvenile based on the relative sizes. they hung out on the right for awhile which is when you must have tuned in.

around sundown there was a group of about a dozen gnus and as the camera tilted up, you could see a large house or lodge with it's electric lights on at the top of the frame. imagine having rhinos in your backyard at night!!

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Well it's 5:19 am on the plains of Africa and the birds are already singing.. No animals visible that I can see unless I am blind,..

ooh a birdy

At the africam.com site I saw some zebra just now, and there was one baby!!!!  Some gazelles or something at the National Geographic site.  That site is  black and white and seems very blurry to me.  :(

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They will probably turn on the color soon. It was color yesterday.

BTW, is there a way to take still snapshots from these? (the print scr key makes a screen cap that is synchronized with the video, but I want a still snapshot .

 

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I was sitting here reading all your comments about the wildlife you've spotted, thinking "All I see is the water hole. No animals." Then after about five minutes, what appeared to be a person quickly walked past the lens. I didn't want to believe it was human so I was trying to think of what else I might have seen. Then the focus started changing, the camera panned to the right, zoomed in on the treess and refocused, then it swung back to the water hole and refocused again. Evidently what I saw was a human. :-)  Then I saw a cute little bird and a herd of zebra and more camera movement. Love the bird sounds.

What is Poser without a Wildebeest?

Martian manhunter the zebras picture I posted earlier was actually from the africacam.com site.

I used a program called fraps to get the picture, it can also make AVIs of the animation.

You can download it at the link.

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

It can also  capture screens and animations from games.

Well, I finally got to see the first site...I had to roll back my media player version tho :glare:

And The National Geographic one just sits and loads..so have no idea what the problem is there....

Seen alot of zebra, and some gazelles....little after 9 am there now.

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Hmmm storms coming in there now on the first site....wont be any animals Im thinking till its over

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Is that Ostrich on the national site?...far as i can tell it is..so windy there its hard to see with that storm blowing in....

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Yeah, there's a herd of ostriches that seems to hang out in the distance not too far from the water, and usually once or twice a day they come in and drink.  There's also a family of warthogs that comes 3 or 4 times a day.

I've reached the point where I can recognize some of the individual animals in the groups (like the elephant with one tusk shorter than the other, and another, large cow elephant with one tusk broken off completely) so I can tell that it's the same elephant herd every time and the same warthog family.

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Got a sort of crappy image grab...camera really needs a wind breaker or something around it like the other site has

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what did you use to get the image-grab?

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Martian_manhunter the program I mentioned a few posts back is very good, it doesn`t install spyware or mess up your computer and seems to be free or at least some kind of shareware.

Attached Link: http://www.fraps.com/download.php

Here is the link from a few posts back for screen capture.

Also, this NG site while more active for animals is very windy.  I haven't been watching it much because all I've heard is lots of wind and a duck of some kind, and have seen gazelles which the camera completely ignores in favour of blue chicken-type birds.

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

It is a smaller picture, too.

You can make the NG one larger by right clicking the icon in the bottom right window and selecting "View in Real Player". Once the image is in the player you can drag it out  to a larger size.  And you can use the tool bar to save the feed link so you don't have to open a browser to view it at all. Just open Real Player and pick the saved feed link and it will automatically start up.

At the africam.com link I saw some baboons a few minutes ago.

At the NG one I saw some elephants!!!! Including a couple baby ones!!!

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

I'm wondering if Africam is kinda a "poacher catcher" cam.  Last night (day time on the cam) a truck came driving through and the cam zoomed in and followed it for about 15 mins until it left.  It never really came out of the brush, but, you could make out 4 heads in the vehicle when it hit a clearing in the trees.  Although, it could very well have been a park patrol doing rounds.  Very strange.

Darn you, Acadia!  This cam is totally addicting and I have no spare time left! :crying:

what the heck is all that racket going on down there!!!! these birds are making such an annoying noise right now!!! how's an elephant to get some sleep with all that noise!!!! it's night time by the way!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGGGGHHHH!!! this is the most annoying noise ever!!!!!!

The night sound is frogs, birds don`t make much noise at night, apart from owls.

ahhh!!!!!!!!! just found out they are not birds they are frogs/toads still annoying though!! when does frog hunting season start? after five minutes of this you can get a kind of rythem going, am currently seeing if with accompaniying "oohhmm" noises i can get spiitual enlightenment!!!

it looks like whatever the frogs were discussing has been resolved and they have decided to call it a night!

At the africam.com link there is quite the chorus of bull frogs there at night LOL

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Stevieg1965 et al, as I mentioned in a post yesterday, this water hole is only about 200-300 yards away from a large lodge or house of some sort to the southwest, so I'm not surprised you saw a vehicle. I've seen various people walking around by the house. camera is facing in a westerly direction, so the house is to the left. still kinda cool to think you've got rhinos and such in your backyard!

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Jeff, I just used the print screen button on my keyboard for those shots...but I have Screenhunter Pro for all my other captures.

Would be kind of cool to get everyone to grab a pic of each animal they see...then post one here that hasnt been seen yet by anyone else

Oh, and about the wild cams...yup, they prolly started out with them trying to catch the poachers...guess it caught on so much on the web till the poachers are getting a bit wary these days...never know where a camera might turn up with millions of eyes upon them :lol:

Edit: and about the black and white images someone mentioned..Im sure that is infared

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Ah, sorry fuaho, didn't see your post yesterday.  Rhinos are cool, but, I would love to see a little village of Meerkats in my backyard. :biggrin:

Well, apparently they have different camera operators on different days...This morning I have seen about all the guinea fowl I care to see on the NG site.....the current operator apparently likes birds, and has focused on those guinea mainly all morning..even bypassing the baboons to follow the birds  which would be ok, if they were in short supply..  :glare: {I really wanted a pic of the two baby baboons that were playing in the water} and some type of dog...has a stripe down his side....missed that too in favor of the birds....hopefully when I go back later, they will have changed shifts..

Then on the other site, for the longest time it appeared nobody was manning the camera...got a rough shot of some wildebeasts and zebra...almost too late...then many shots of the ground while the operator had a play....lot of grass detail :bored:

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hehe yeah!  I saw plenty of those blue birds myself yesterday.  Actually, other than them panning for some elephants, that's all I saw.  Well, there was one duck in that flock of birds too, and it was amusing to see all of the other birds kind of look at the duck and probably wonder what a strange bird that was,  LOL

I wish there were more animals at the link I posted, at least the camera pans in on the animals that it does see.  I saw quite a large family of baboons yesterday making their way across the ground, and there were some baby ones too.  But instead of sticking with them when they settled down under the trees, it panned back to the pond and a duck. I love ducks, but if there are "live as it happens" baboons in the area I'd much rather see the baboons :)

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Gah! 

I saw a Vulture or some kind of large predatory bird at the NG site, but when I took a screen capture using "print screen" button on my keyboard, all that pasted into my graphic program was a live feed of the real player!!!!

I thought print screen was said to work for these?

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

i caught sylfie this morning helping to keep the froggies quiet, and helping to stop the lions going hungry at the same time!!

Whee! I downloaded that "fraps" program and it really works!

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Here is another

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Screenshot Utility

I just tried this one and it works better. I found that with the Fraps one that my system was laggy and I was having a hard time getting Real Player to work once I opened the Fraps program.

I had totally forgotten about this handy little screenshot utility. I've been using it for years.

Install it. Click on the icon to open the program.  Set up a folder to deposit the screenshots.  Set up a key to use. I stuck with the default ESC key.  Minimize the program window. To take a screenshot simply press your desired key and it will take a screenshot of the window, minus the tool bar and save it as a .jpg file in the folder of your choosing.

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Acadia was that your site link or the national geographic one with the elephants?

I couldn`t get fraps to work with the national geographic site.  :huh:

It was the NG one.  However after those shots I wasn't able to get it to work again. My Real Player window kept freezing up. I've uninstalled Fraps as it seems to cause loads of system lag.  The utility that I posted a link to works really well and there is no lag.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

There is no lag with my computer and fraps.

Here is a picture of a deer that was mainly eating the grass.

Even after uninstalling Fraps I couldn't get my real player to work again.  I had to completely reinstall real player. 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Here are some Baboons from the NG site.  They're a bit blurry because who ever is at the camera doesn't seem to know how to focus it! 

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Here are 2 warthogs I think.

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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Here is a better image of the baboons

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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Even the static pictures at the national geographic site are slightly blurry, which is why I prefer the other one.

Acadia, It sounds like it was more a problem with realplayer rather than with fraps.

I can't get screenshots now for some reason :(

There are 2 girafs at the NG site.  A Mommy and her baby.  So majestic and cute at the same time!

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I finally managed to get another screen capture.  There were some great views of them drinking and standing by the water, but by the time I managed to get a screenshot, they were already in the trees eating. Here is one

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haha, there is something at one of these links that is making the cutest sound!  Not sure what it is. It sounds like a growling/cooing sound, hehe

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Attached Link: Africam Google Earth placemarks

For anyone that uses Google Earth, here are some Google earth placemarks. The zip contains 3 of them, one is the warter hole, one os the tree that the cam is mounted in and one is the nearby Nkorho Bush Lodge.

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martian_manhunter, that link doesn`t work.

ok, I fixed it.

 

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Got a few shots yesterday, and a couple a day earlier....will post a couple now....

Some are rather blurry as the wind blew the camera around :bored:...thought I got one of a croc sunning on the bank, but the site had streaming issues and what I thought I got, turned out to be all black......dang it...

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a baby...there were two

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Really blurry, but its the only one I got before this guy took off....dont recall the name of this pup

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Bird in the thorn bush.....ow

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And some kind of bird that was almost under the camera by the waters edge

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Here's a warthog, being a typical pig, lying in the mud.

For some reason the fraps program only works with the Africam one, not the RealPlayer one.

 

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Thanks for the heads up. There is a boar there now just laying in the water taking in the sun.

Some wildebeests (and the warthog still lying in the mud ignoring them)

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An elephant (with a wildebeest and a couple Steenboks in the background)

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Yes, fraps only works with africam, it might be something to do with the way the videos are displayed.

hehe, those wildebeest don't know what to think of that warthog!  LOL

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Actually this is the first forum I come to and generally don't go anywhere else but photoshop and maya so I'm glad they posted it here or I would have missed it. Thanks for the heads up. Saw a boar with huge tusks this morning at about 2 am.

Ack actually I guess he's a warthog...lol

Something down there right now. Hard to tell what it is though so far away.

For some reason, Fraps started working with the NG cam too now. So now all I have to do is wait for soemthing interesting to come up.

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These sites are totally addicting. I love watching the nature shows about animals in their habitat.  But this is so different because it's not pre-recorded video.  it's awesome to be able to see it happening totally live.  It's like looking out my window and having a whole wildlife sanctuary in my back yard.  I think that's why it's so amazing and so addicting because it feels like you are there.

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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Here's a Google Earth screenshot of the location of the Africam

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It looks like there is something wrong with the africam camera, it was pointed at grass and seemed to have some dirt on the lens and it switched off.  Hopefully it is just the lens that needs cleaned and it will be back on later.

Just a few minutes ago it was pointed at soem ant lions on the ground

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That was what I saw.  It has been cleaned and is working again.

A croc.

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Dang! Jeff got the first croc pic! :tt2: ~hehe~

I agree, this is addicting...me and my girls are having a blast watching this for the very reasons Acadia said above..its live. and feels like you are there....I find myself hollering at the camera operator sometimes saying..."Oh! pan the camera, you're gonna miss that shot!" snicker

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Attached Link: http://www.wavelit.com/index.asp?ch=Wildlife&sh=hummingbirds

There is also a live hummingbird feed..{and a grizzly bear feed coming soon.}

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Got billions of elephants today dispite the cameraman trying to just show me trees!!

pic 1

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pic 2

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pic 3

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pic 4 ....oohs and ahhs time.

click for big piccy.

pic 5

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Those are great pics!  I've seen elephants there several times already but never that many at once.  That's awesome.

I particularly love the captioned picture,  LOL

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

I just saw a lot of Zebras there :)  How did you get screen captures? And did you watch the old cartoons?

http://www.wavelit.com/index.asp?ch=Kids&sh=cartoons

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I use that program Fraps to get my screenshots.

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Ok Thanks :)

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Vince3,

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the quote should probably be: "Mommy, why are all those people looking at us?" Elephant societies are matriarchal. Great shots though.

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Pokeydots, fraps works with all the wavelit.com videos.

I watched a three little pigs cartoon the other day, the pigs all looked like porky pig.

Fraps isn't free though :( 

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There's a free version
the difference is that the free one will only let you save the screenshots as bmp's. the pay-for one will let you save them as jpgs and png's too.

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Thanks so much for the link Acadia.   I sneak over several times a day during work when I need a little peace and tranquility.   Trust me, as an IT Admin who has to keep four different systems going, I need all the peace and tranquility I can get. 

Thanks martian :)

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You can also, using the free version of fraps, save the video as an avi then select the frames you want and save them in any format that you want.

Quote - Thanks so much for the link Acadia.   I sneak over several times a day during work when I need a little peace and tranquility.   Trust me, as an IT Admin who has to keep four different systems going, I need all the peace and tranquility I can get. 

You're welcome :)  The birds chirping is very restful. I can't say the same for the choir of bull frogs late at night though, LOL  After listening to them for a few minutes I need Tylenol and a nerve pill,  :P

But there is something about actually seeing these beautiful animals live across the world from your living room that makes it so different than just tuning into a taped animal show.  It really brings it home to you and feels like your own backyard.  I wouldn't get anything done if I lived with something like that in my backyard. I'd be glued to the window and camera and probably have a mini fridge, cooktop and port-a-potty near so I would miss a thing,  LOL

I say we all save our money and have a Renderosity meet up there :)

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Cape buffalos

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a giraffe

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And doesanyone have any idea what kind of bird this is?

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also there was a thunderstorm there this morning.

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It is a stork, see the link.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-stork.html

ok, according to that link, its specific species is a saddle-bill stork. cool.

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Baby Zebra :)

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Awwww!!!  Isn't she cute!!!  :wub:

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Awww I love baby anythings..what a cutie!

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There was a big bug the other day.

 

Well That looks scarey!

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It looks like the camera was behind glass that day, the bug was probably only an inch long.

OMG!!!!   A ONE INCH LONG BUG???????????  :scared:

If I saw a bug that big I'd be running in the other direction, regardless of what i was running into!  Call it blind terror!!!   LOL

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When I was in the Air Force, my first night in Mississippi there was a roach that was bigger than that on the floor of the dorm.

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Here's a turtle

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And a monkey

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I soooo want to move to Africa!!!   LOL

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able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

If you're looking for pics of those rare African birds, this website might help you as well as any other virtual birdwatcher:

http://birdquest.net/afbid/

I wish I could look through that webcam, but it seems to be off at the moment...