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Dholes in Kaeng Krachan national park, Thailand
A pack of Dholes (Cuon alpinus) showed up at a pond in Kaeng Krachan national park, Thailand. They had killed a Sambar deer there earlier, but virtually only bones were left, but nevertheless they hang around the spot for a while, allowing us to get some footage. Whilst set up in a blind on the water's edge, a Common Kingfisher perched at less than 1.5m in front of the lens allowing for some very close up footage. And a Black-capped Kingfisher and some other birdlife showed up too.
The larger national parks/ wildlife sanctuaries in Thailand still have populations of these Asian Wild Dogs. From our experience, Kaeng Krachan is not the easiest place to see this species, but nonetheless we ha...
The larger national parks/ wildlife sanctuaries in Thailand still have populations of these Asian Wild Dogs. From our experience, Kaeng Krachan is not the easiest place to see this species, but nonetheless we ha...
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Kui Buri national park tours by Tontan Travel
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Kui Buri national park is without a doubt the best place in Thailand to see wild Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus). Besides the elephant population, there is a thriving population of Gaur (Bos gaurus). They are not as often seen as the elephants, but there is still a pretty good chance to encounter these massive bovids. We - Tontan Travel - offer elephant watching safaris in Kui Buri. The typic...
Khao Yai national park tours by Tontan Travel
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Khao Yai national park is Thailand's best park for wildlife watching. From our extensive experience throughout the country, no other park seems to provide the consistency and diversity of wildlife sightings as we generally get to see in Khao Yai. Not to mention the stunning scenery! We - Tontan Travel - offer wildlife tours in Khao Yai ranging from 1 to 3 days. Depending on the tour package/ du...
Asian Elephants foraging in Khao Yai national park, Thailand
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A herd of Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) foraging in the grasslands of Khao Yai national park, Thailand Camera: www.tontantravel.com Music: www.bensound.com
Leopard Cat in Thailand, a very close encounter
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On a night walk in one of Thailand's jungles, this Leopard Cat appeared onto the road and started walking in our direction. We froze, took a series of images with flash which did not scare him, and watched it getting closer. Blinded by the torch light it seemed oblivious to our presence. It continued walking until it was less than a meter away. There it stopped. It seemed to understand somethin...
Fishing cat hunting in Thailand
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A Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) pouncing in the water to hunt for fish in Thailand.
Lazy gibbon
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A White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar) sleeping on a branch in Kaeng Krachan national park, Thailand
Asian Black Bears playing in the jungle
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www.tontantravel.com/ Asian Black Bears, Ursus thibetanus, female with two cubs rolling and playing in front of a trail camera in the jungle of Thailand. The black fur of the bears filling the frame fooled the camera, which switched to night vision (IR) whenever the bears moved in too close. But even in black and white it is still great to watch their behaviour! The amazing biodiversity of Thai...
Clouded Leopard in Thailand
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www.tontantravel.com/ The world's most beautiful wild cat species: the Clouded Leopard, neofelis nebulosa. Thailand is amazing! This video is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike Licence. You are free to use this video, but only with attribution under the same licence together with the following credits: Owner: Tontantravel.com Link: www.tontantravel.com/
Leopard in Kaeng Krachan national park
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www.tontantravel.com/tours/en/kaengkrachan-national-park-tours.html An Indochinese Leopard, Panthera pardus delacouri filmed by our dashboard cam in Kaeng Krachan national park, Thailand. A lucky encounter in December 2014!
Our first Tiger!
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The Indochinese Tiger, Panthera tigris corbetti, in Thailand. After taking our cam from the previous location where we got the Clouded Leopard, we travelled to the Western Forest Complex in Thailand, where tigers are still known to occur. However with a total estimated number of 200 tigers left in the whole of Thailand, chances are incredibly slim to camera trap this rare big cat that is on the...
Clouded Leopard in Khao Yai national park
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Watching 10m2 in a 2.165.000.000m2 national park for 2.5 weeks, 24/7. Here a list of the animals that used this 10m2 of forest floor in Khao Yai national park, Thailand. Clouded Leopard!!! 0:42 Wooow! The lens was foggy, and the cat did not pose nor look at the cam... but just catching a glimpse of this elusive species is simply fantastic! We'll keep trying and hopefully get a better video in t...
Asiatic Black Bear, Khao Yai
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Asiatic Black Bear, Ursus thibetanus or Selenarctos thibetanus, in Khao Yai national park, Thailand. There were two of them, but vegetation was reducing visibility and I was too close to get them both in the frame with my 300mm telephoto lens...
Gibbons & hornbill in Khao Yai (testing Fujifilm HS50EXR)
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Our new camera - a Fujifilm HS50EXR - asked for a day of testing in the forests of Khao Yai national park. The gibbons posed well for us (even though the sky was too bright), just like the male Great Hornbill that came to feed the female nesting inside the tree. Our computer does not seem to be ready for editing full HD 59.94fps footage, or at least it is extremely slow in doing so. We decided ...
Monkey attack in Khao Yai
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On one of the camping grounds in Khao Yai, this aggressive male didn't seemed to like me. Maybe it was my hair. However, camping in Khao Yai is always exciting. The Northern Pigtail Macaque (Macaca leonina) is a vulnerable species according IUCN redlist. However, in Khao Yai it's still abundant, and this is how they protect their lives. www.tontantravel.com/khao_yai_wildlife_and_jungle_tours_en...
Such a beast. 😎
So cool!
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Indochinese dholes huh that's pretty rare and I would like to give props to the people that protect them like the indochinese tiger and Indochinese leopard numbers are increasing and I think the indochinese clouded leopard and Indochinese dhole numbers are more stable
It's the Indochinese leopard 😊
Yes, we only get Indochinese Leopards (Panthera pardus delacouri) in Thailand. That's why it is special ;-) Not the rarest subspecies, but definitely a lot harder than e.g., African, or Sri Lankan Leopards. Also, in our region it is probably roughly 50/50 spotted versus black phase. We have seen both phases in Kaeng Krachan national park. Though the further south you go the higher the percentage of black phase seems to get.
@@Tontantravel yeah so leopards that live in forest or jungle like the javan, indian, malayan do have the melanistic gene more than the ones that live in open areas like the the African, Arabian and persian but it does occur in those subspecies too and the only predator that is above the Indochinese leopard is the Indochinese tiger which both animals populations are increasing like the siberian tiger and amur leopard populations
@@rickstar6276 for the most part true yes, though there is not much information about increasing Indochinese Tiger population here in Thailand. Usually the estimate is set at about 200 in Thailand. Though when adding up the numbers of the well-studied populations, it is questionable if even that 200 is overly positive. And in our opinion the tiger is not the only predator above the leopard. Dholes are successful hunters taking larger prey. Surely one on one a leopard wins from a Dhole, but not as a pack.
@@Tontantravel though it is true the population is increasing there is no exact estimate on the the how many there are with one reason being that compared to the other mainland tiger subspecies not much is known about this one the only way they actual did realize the population was increasing was because of seeing new individuals and I would say that leopards and dholes are on the same level cause though the indochinese leopard is the 7th biggest subspecies it is still very strong and a skilled fighter like in india if a leopard does get surround by some dholes and has no quick escape route it will fight and in africa a leopard can fend off 4 lionesses and the indochinese leopard is similar and a lot of people underestimate leopards because they don't look that muscular say like a jaguar but they are very strong, skilled and agile fighters even an Arabian leopard can carry a 300lb ibex up the mountain slope and not a lot of people can do that and dholes are more aggressive to leopards than tigers it's cause leopards hunt them down for food while tigers won't bother cause its not worth it for them cause they won't gain much from it so both leopards and dhole seem on the same level but both are above clouded leopards that can take on one or two dholes
Wow Ton.... incredible video. How amazing that it still tried to hunt, despite the lights. I must, must, must try to make a bigger pool on my land in Kanchanaburi!!!
Yes, this was an amazing encounter. Actually at first when I spotted the eye shine, the cat was still in the bushes. At that point I wasn't sure yet what I was looking at. But I was specifically in that area to try and find Fishing Cat so I was hopeful. Then after some time it actually peeked through a gap in the bushes and I managed to shoot a photo with flash and only then I could see the features in the face to confirm I was indeed looking at a Fishing Cat, at that point a lifer for me. I sat down at the water and simply waited. After 15 minutes it appeared from the bushes. It spend some time right at the water edge, trying to catch some fish. Afterwards it laid down out in the open on the shore, just relaxing. And eventually it took off. The entire sighting from beginning to end was about one hour! By far the longest and best wild cat sighting I had ever had in Thailand. This was in February 2019. And in December that same year we did another targeted search for Fishing Cat, and at 22:30 spotted eyeshine in dense bush. It was on a bit of an embankment. And every now and then some wading birds would move almost within its reach, but then every time changed course in the wrong direction so he never actually attacked. We watched it for very long. At some point it moved off and we had lost sight of it, but then we noticed a dirt road around the lake, and there we spotted it again but this time really close to our car. We got some great images there. Would be amazing if you get it in Kanchanaburi.
@@Tontantravel Wow. Great stuff. We need to chat about that location. I'd really like to go after that.
@@thailandwild4897 will give you some directions next time we meet.
It is beautiful
Excellent footage Ton, very nicely put together.
Thanks Darryl for the kind words!
@@Tontantravel You're welcome. I wish I had stayed on a few more days!!!
@@thailandwild4897 there will always be a next time ;-)
Nice footage Ton. Love the reflections. I've never seen them in KK before.
Thanks Marc! They are indeed not too commonly seen in Kaeng Krachan. We've had more luck in Khao Yai national park. Also, we noticed they seemed more skittish of our presence than what we have experienced in Khao Yai.
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Nice video of the beautiful elephants, thanks for uploading
nice find!
Stunning! Incredible video.
Thanks a lot for sharing this!
Amazing! The Indochinese Clouded Leopard is unbelievably rare!
Yes, still in about 8 years we have spent in the Thai jungles now, we have had 3 separate sightings of Clouded Leopard. Extremely lucky! The first sighting was the best, a female with two nearly full-grown cubs slowly crossed the road in front of us on a night drive in Khao Yai national park. It still hurts to this day that we did not bring our camera that night :( The other two sightings (one in Khao Yai and other in Kaeng Krachan) were very brief and getting an image was simply impossible. So waiting for the next one ;-)
That's incredible. I've been lucky enough to have had 3 sightings of a Sunda Clouded Leopard in Borneo in just 4 nights, but I'm at a loss when it comes to travelling to see the Indochinese species. I hope a situation similar to the Snow Leopard will happen and tourists' interest will eventually create very specialized tours. This is probably the most stunning animal on earth.
Yes I know. We offer wildlife tours in Thailand, but there is no way that we can guarantee a chance like in Borneo ;-) We do not get special permissions to go out at night in the bigger parks and operate night drives by ourselves. Only Khao Yai national park has a night safari service but we can only do that with a park staff member as driver and spotlighting assistant and they are not professional enough to know how to properly operate such drives. Also this is only possible on a limited route. Still we have had luck once on those night safaris, but we could surely increase our chances a lot if they would allow us to fully operate this by ourselves with no restrictions in route and timing... But I guess that will remain a dream. We know various spots where we have frequently found scrapes of Clouded Leopard, and where we got these trap videos. I haven't been there, but get jealous when I hear the permissions tour operators get in a reserve like Deramakot in Borneo. I suppose that is where you got your sightings, or not? If we would get similar permissions here in Thailand we would much increase our chances. Still with luck it can work out. Couple days ago we got to see/ photograph Indochinese Leopard (spotted phase) on a trip in Huai Kha Khaeng.
Yes, you made a good guess: I saw them in Deramakot with Mike Gordon. I guess it stays a dream until enough tourist interest makes it worthwile for the government. Their management of Deramakot is very interesting on that matter. I am incredibly jealous of anyone who has seen the Idonchinese species and I often wonder how many people have.
Yes I wonder too. Nearly all the people we know who spent lots of time in the national parks in Thailand still have never seen a Clouded Leopard. Some guides and park staff have seen them, but other than that it is a very small group of people. With three separate sightings I might be record holder, hahaha. Though it has purely to do with the amount of time spent in the jungles, and even more importantly, a lot of luck! Another rare one on my life list is the Marbled Cat which I got to see once in Khao Yai national park. So far I have seen 4 out of the 9 wild cats of Thailand. A lot of Leopard Cats, and since this week my counter for Indochinese Leopard is at 4 (1 black phase, 3 spotted phase). Anyway, if I ever find out a spot with a real chance to see the Indochinese Clouded Leopard, I will let you know ;-)
Clouded leopard! <3 <3
How cool is that! Very close as well.
Congratulations Tony! What a beauty!!
Thanks Joachim! And it looks like a very healthy specimen. We also got a Asiatic Black Bear with two cubs that played for quite a while right in front of the camera!
One note: due to some trouble with the camera the time stamp was reset back to 03/01/2011 10:50:00, that's why we used an overlay with the actual time of the event.
wow, incredible! Happy you got the new camera Tan;)