Hello friends!

The Exo Terra expedition headed this year for Cameroon in West Africa in search for reptiles and amphibians! With this site we will try to keep our friends, fans and enemies up to date. If local technology permits, we will keep you posted daily. Stay tuned!

Cheers,

The Exo Terra Cameroon Team


Monday 28 February 2011

Trioceros serratus

Some images of Trioceros serratus from the Mount Oku area. One of the most colourfull species we encountered during this expedition...

Trioceros quadricornis gracilior

Some more image as promised from T. quadricornis gracilior and from the field measurements taken...

Sunday 27 February 2011

Manebgouba Mountain

Breathtaking scenery near the the Manengouba lakes...

Saturday 26 February 2011

On our way to Bakossi Mountains

Today we drive back south to the Bakossi Mountains area, the last leg of our expedition.

We have been very successful this far when it comes to finding Chameleons, but we have seen very few other species of reptile or amphibians...

Hopefully this will change when we explore the lowland forests... We will keep you posted.

Friday 25 February 2011

Trioceros serratus

Just done photographing T. serratus, beautiful animals... Some good pictures later...

Trioceros quadricornis gracilior from Mount Oku

Good morning from Mount Oku, Cameroon. Yesterday was a great day where we again found what we were looking for; Trioceros quadricornis gracilior and Trioceros serratus. Here are already some images of the T. quadricornis, the other species will follow later... Later today we will go back to the sacred forest where we found most T. quadricornis gracilior yesterday, but first we will photograph the T. serratus.

We now found all montane and submontane species of chameleon. The only species of which we did not really found full adult specimen is Troceros quadricornis quadricornis. Also an adult female of T. pfefferi would complete our records... We now will head back south in an attempt to find these before descending to the lowland forest to search for T. oweni and T. cristatus. We have a little to find T. camerunensis... Since we do not have the time to visit the localities of T. eisentrauti and T. wiedersheimi, we probably have to organize a second expedition to cover all currently known species in Cameroon.

More picture later today...

Thursday 24 February 2011

On top of Mount Oku

Yesterday after a full say driving on one of Cameroon's worst roads we reached the town of Kumbo. Now searching for chameleons... Hopefully some pictures soon!

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Mount Oku

Finally we see Mount Oku in the distance... Hopefully we reach there before dark, the road is getting worse again...

Bamboutos

Driving through the Bamboutos region, in the background Mount Bamboutos. As you can see there is no forest left at all... We continue towards Mount Oku...

Entering Mbouda...

On our way to Mount Oku... Just stopping in Mbouda to try and change some money, then on our way to Bamenda where we will have lunch... Hoping to arrive before darkness near Mount Oku.

Dschang

Rainy day! It rained all night last night, and it still is... Cold night as well, we lit the fireplace in our hut, and forgot we were actually in tropical Cameroon... Today we will decide on our next destination, as the planned Bamboutos mountains have very little forest left... You will hear from us soon!

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Some more chameleon shots...

Hi everyone, time for some more Chameleon pictures! Great expedition so far... Today we head for Dschang. More news soon!

Monday 21 February 2011

Manengouba Mountains

Right now in the Manengouba Highlands (1770m) where we just found a pair of Trioceros perreti! Great looking animals, more images later...

Saturday 19 February 2011

On Mount Koupe!

Right now on Mount Koupe (1550m) in search of T. quadricornis quadricornis and T. pfeferi. This was the toughest journey so far!!! Hopefully we find some...

Friday 18 February 2011

Rough road!

Almost there, not so easy!

On our way to Mount Kupe

This morning we left Mount Cameroon an now we are heading for Kupe... More news soon!

Some chameleon shots...

Finally we are able to share some Chameleon shots we took over the past two days on mount Cameroon! W hop hope you enjoy them, even they are rather small because of the poor internet connection. We hope to post more soon!

Thursday 17 February 2011

Back down...

We made it back safe down the mountain!!! It was though for some of us... Loren and Guy here near the waterfall were we found 6 chameleons... Great expedition so far, tomorrow we head Mount Kupe...

Cheers