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Giribes Leopard Rock
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 Giribes Leopard Rock (A03) - Webcam images and video 
A webcam was installed on this study site to track and document the development of the fairy circles over time. Once every day at 12 noon, a landscape photo is taken. When all of these individual shots are combined, the video gives an overall impression of the quantity, size, and vegetation condition of the fairy circles and tracks of animals in time-lapse. The video can be downloaded here as a file.
The time lapse video shows the changes of many fairy circles in the Giribesvlakte during more than six years (2245 days), spanning the period from 04.12.2015 until 26.01.2022. On right hand side the outcrops of Leopard are visible. In the direct foreground a fairy circle is inhabited by a colony of the ant species Carebara kunensis. These ants exclude the sand termites from the territory directly adjacent to their nest and its several ports. The observation carries on and the video will be extended in not too distant future.