Photographic Maps for the Primates, Warthogs and Hyraxes of Africa
The design and implementation of effective conservation measures for primates, warthogs and hyraxes requires an efficient, low cost, and accessible resource for the identification of species and subspecies. Although photographs cannot replace an adequate museum collection as a resource for assessing species variation, geotagged photographs are a relatively fast, inexpensive, convenient, and unobtrusive means for detecting and assessing phenotypic variation within a species/subspecies over large areas. The use of photographs to document phenotypic characters will become increasingly important as the collection of specimens for hands-on assessments becomes ever more difficult.
Adult male Hilgert’s vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus hilgerti), South Western Mau Forest Reserve. Photograph by Yvonne A. de Jong & Thomas M. Butynski.
Our 14 newly up-graded on-line photographic maps (or ‘PhotoMaps’; wildsolutions.nl), with over 2400 images (October 2016) of African primates, warthogs and hyraxes, together with the latest distribution maps, provide insight into each taxon’s phenotypic characters, diversity and biogeography. These ‘living’ collections of geotagged images are a practical tool for documenting and discussing diversity, taxonomy, biogeography, distribution and conservation status and, therefore, for planning actions for conservation.
The 14 PhotoMaps provided by wildsolutions.nl on http://www.wildsolutions.nl/photography/photomap/
PhotoMaps are useful to those who want to:
- identify species/subspecies;
- know which species/subspecies occur in which areas;
- obtain species/subspecies photographs;
- confirm species distribution;
- describe variation within a species/subspecies, especially as it relates to geographic distribution.
Gentle monkey Cercopithecus mitis PhotoMap provided by wildsolutions.nl on http://www.wildsolutions.nl/photography/photomap/
If you have photographs of African primates, warthogs or hyraxes from the less documented areas of Africa (i.e., gaps on the PhotoMaps), please consider contributing them to the PhotoMaps. The photographers name is attached to each photograph. Anyone wishing to use a PhotoMap photograph must obtain both permission and the photograph from the photographer.
Send your photographs, and the coordinates and/or place name of the site where the photographs were obtained, to yvonne@wildsolutions.nl
We thank Arnoud de Jong for his technical expertise and great help with the PhotoMaps!
Click here to access the PhotoMaps!
Adult male desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) at Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Photograph by Yvonne A. de Jong & Thomas M. Butynski
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