Sentences with phrase «of camera traps»

To fill this gap, the Wildlife Conservation Society, in conjunction with other groups, has built the Wildlife Picture Index, a global network of camera traps used to assess the health of medium and large - sized terrestrial birds and mammals.

These include those captured by our series of camera traps (part of our lodge - funded scientific research project) including pumas, ocelots, margays, ant eaters and many more.

Camera (en) Trap (ment) Project September got off to a rocky start with readers (myself included) responding to news of camera traps being used in Florida's National Key Deer Refuge «to document the number of cats stalking prey in the refuge.»

That summer, one of our camera traps captured incredible images of the family near a watering hole.

We'll also set up a dense network of camera traps in order to get as complete a picture as possible of their youth, up to the age when they'll leave their mother.»

Studying the social interaction of bears through the use of camera traps and visual observations requires that humans be able to tell individuals apart.

«We have been in touch with an Indonesian conservation group about setting up an array of camera traps in the area over a longer period,» Moore says, «to see if we can get a photograph.»

To find out where N. primus goes each night, we deploy dozens of sound traps in the forest — acoustic versions of camera traps, tuned to listen for and record the ultrasonic call of the species.

This deer in this image was startled while feeding on apples, either by the flash of the camera trap or by the flying squirrel behind it.

AIC model weights indicated little difference between capture and recapture probabilities, suggesting no behavioural effect of camera trapping.

Not exact matches

Beginning in 2011, research associate Jindong Zhang and his colleagues were using motion - detecting camera traps to document the movement of animals in Hetaoping, a roughly 15 square - mile area in the northeastern portion of the reserve.

Estimates from paw prints and camera traps put the number at about 1400 tigers (Science, 22 February 2008), a figure that reflects years of habitat loss and poaching.

Camera traps like this one may be the most effective method of ensuring that alpha males and females get vaccinated, so they can survive outbreaks and breed pups the next season.

UQ School of Biological Sciences researchers PhD student Juan Lei and Dr David Booth observed — with the assistance of Turtle Care Queensland Inc volunteers and camera traps — that the predators disturb up to 400 nests at the beach in one year.

The first camera - trap photographs of the critically endangered Saharan cheetah have been taken in Algeria.

That January, University of Utah researchers had set out seven calves (all of which had died from natural causes) weighing 18 to 27 kilograms in the Great Basin Desert, each monitored by a camera trap.

Durant, working with staff from the Office du Parc National de l'Ahaggar (OPNA), says the photographs were taken as part of the first systematic camera trap survey across the central Sahara, covering an area of 2,800 square kilometres.

National Geographic contributor Michael Nichols caught this leopard, but only just, as it crossed an infrared beam and so triggered a camera trap Nichols had hidden deep in the rainforest of Nouabalé - Ndoki National Park in the Republic of the Congo.

He'd like to someday install camera traps on the islands to get a better sense of the crabs» behavior.

Camera traps captured a badger burying an entire cow by itself, a group of researchers reported in the journal Western North American Naturalist.

As the atoms are «trapped,» the scientists use a camera to create images of the atoms and their locations.

Working with 60 Amazonian communities in the Juruá and Uatumã regions of Amazonas, Brazil, they deployed 383 motion - activated camera traps and conducted 78 interviews with subsistence hunters.

In three weeks in 1998, in the neighboring forest of Tsimaloto, he caught three fossa in live traps and documented another three with motion - sensitive cameras.

Currently, researchers at the Museum Zoology, UM are comparing the successful mammal detection from guts of blowflies collected in forest with mammals detected in cage traps, mist nets, camera traps, hair traps and scat samples.

The study also developed novel non-invasive monitoring methods such as camera traps and underwater surveys for monitoring lair sites and for making better estimations of natality and perinatal mortality.

It also integrates a wealth of other information, including the positions of nearby rangers, vehicles and aircraft, as well as detected gunshots, camera trap feeds, arrest and crime - scene records, weather, and more.

Hidden camera traps have offered scientists unprecedented access into the native habitats of endangered species, and they ways they behave.

Video footage from these camera traps are providing vital information about this critically endangered species as well as an array of other charismatic animals such as the bonobo, African palm civet, and potto who also inhabit the Lomami National Park.

«It was an incredible experience to work in the canopy of such a remote site, and to get the first camera - trap videos of an extremely rare and elusive species.»

With WCS help, HMFB has been conducting SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) patrols and snare removal campaigns, as well as camera trapping in the rural areas outside of Hunchun National Nature Reserve (HNR) since last January.

However, through a series of questionnaires, camera trap data and remote - sensed images the researchers, led by Nicolás Gálvez studying at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), found that the güiña is remarkably adaptable to forest loss.

The scene, which is the first documented case of such an attack, was captured at the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve in southern Russia by a camera trap used to monitor Siberian tigers.

A group of UF / IFAS researchers used camera traps next to 100 artificial bird nests baited with quail eggs near the Silver River.

The study set 123 PantheraCam camera traps over a 1,000 km2 forest block located in a protection zone specially designated by the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority to improve park protection and aid in the recovery of flagship species.

«Our recent work has demonstrated that we can determine what mammals are in a protected area without hunting, without trapping, without the use of scat or hair samples, and especially without camera traps - all of which are problematic methods for one reason or another,» said study author Mark Siddall, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

Images of the rabbit had previously been caught by motion sensitive «camera traps».

Their team failed to find the saola using camera traps and considered bringing in trained dogs to help the hunt, at an estimated cost of US$ 400,000.

During this study, we've been constantly monitoring the snow leopard population of Tost with camera traps, and have tracked a total of 23 individual snow leopards with GPS collars.

During late 2013, a team of rangers and biologists led by Bakhtiyor Aromov and Yelizaveta Protas, in collaboration with Panthera, WWF Central Asia Program and Uzbekistan BioControl Agency, conducted a snow leopard camera trap study in the Kizilsu area of Gissar Nature Reserve, on the border of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

We just have to share this rare and amazing photograph of two wild snow leopards taken by a remote camera trap.

From a methodological perspective, we achieved high (95 %) success in identification of individual snow leopards from photographs, even though we used only one camera per trapping station.

As long as trapping stations are set up in sites where snow leopards are likely to linger (e.g. marking locations), thereby allowing multiple images and both flanks to be photographed, one camera trap appears adequate, especially when conducting long - term monitoring and using cameras that are capable of taking multiple images rapidly (< 1 second intervals).

«Recently I was happy to work with Chinese biologists in Xinjiang, training them on snow leopard survey methodology and with Russian colleagues in transboundary areas of Mongolia and Russia confirming their knowledge on snow leopard sign surveys and checking the camera traps.

«Only in recent years have advances such as satellite telemetry and compact camera traps capable of taking high - quality night shots while surviving extreme low temperatures allowed scientists to begin to unravel the mysteries behind the snow leopard's life,» said Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) scientist Dr. Stephane Ostrowski.

The camera trap photo taken at Noyon soum which is adjacent to the Tost mountains For more on snow leopard conservation and research in Mongolia read our recent interview with Dr Bariushaa Munkhtsog of the Mongolia Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation.

Within each cell, the site with most signs of recent activity was chosen and a camera trap was installed.

We report, for the first time, the population trends and vital rates of the endangered snow leopard based on camera trapping over four years in the Tost Mountains, South Gobi, Mongolia.

Although we sampled the entire area during the same period, this flexibility allowed us to use the entire data from a camera trap right from the day of installation, irrespective of whether or not the other camera traps had become operational.

Although all snow leopards were identified as unique individuals based on camera trap pictures, the sexing of adults would perhaps not have been possible for many individuals (except females with young), had we not been capturing them for collaring.

In total we invested a sampling effort of 8,490 camera - trap - nights over 4 years.