Dot Earth: Wildlife camera traps capture stunning images


Photo Credit: Wildlife Conservation Society

From Dot Earth: "Wildlife Confidential" is the name for a book (and perhaps documentary) I’ve wanted to create for years, given my decade-long fascination with camera traps, which have become a valuable tool in conservation biology (check this Google Scholar search for research using camera traps).

My favorite places to track such imagery now are Smithsonian Wild, a Web site with a searchable gallery of more than 200,000 images, and the blog and YouTube channel of Eyes on Leuser, a camera-trapping project monitoring wildlife in the Leuser ecosystem of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. (Mongabay led me to the Leuser imagery.) Here’s the August roundup, including close encounters with a crested serpent eagle, a curious tiger and a muddy Eurasian pig.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 9/25/2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: wildlife camera camera traps
 

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