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MRI Honours Student Conducts Camera Trapping in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve

Some interesting footage of a bat eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) captured on a recent field campaign by honours student Mattheus Louw at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in the Northern Cape. His study, funded by the University of Pretoria and the Tswalu foundation, aims to determine which secondary species visit communal defaecation sites like rhino middens and hyaena latrines in semi-arid regions, and what drives them to do so.