Hey, Tapir, Jaguar, Smile! You Are The Candid Camera
WASHINGTON (AP) - They are the family portrait hidden in the most remote jungles of the earth is finally revealed: a snapshot of the touch of a female mountain gorilla endangered carry a baby on her back. A giant anteater sticks his huge nose almost in your face. Soulful eyes of a curious chimpanzee, a fast Jaguar, tapir and a rare look back at you.
The researchers will get an unusual peek into the hidden key in points with 420 tropical automatic cameras capture snapshots of really wild. The first in nearly 52 000 pictures published on Monday, Conservation International, a group that promotes the conservation of nature and wildlife biologists are wowing experience.
The cameras broke after a month in the dry season that begins in 2008 in seven different countries and will continue to take Candids in the years to come.
"They catch them doing what they're doing, you are", said the study's lead author, Jorge Ahumada, Technical Director of Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring network.
"They catch them doing what they're doing, you are", said the study's lead author, Jorge Ahumada, Technical Director of Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring network.
What is crucial is that there were no people. Cameras were hidden with camouflage, and there are no visible lightning. They are sensitive to heat so that when something hot is close, the camera takes pictures. Cameras were positioned to study in mammals, but also had the big birds, lizards, and something else: human poachers, weapons in hand.
Ahumada and his team's seven cameras in various wildlife sanctuaries in Suriname, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Tanzania, Brazil, Uganda and Laos. Suriname has at least the most diverse and Laos. Their findings were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
"What a great study," said biologist at Stanford University Terry Root, who was not involved. "Mammals are very difficult to identify because they are afraid of humans and have better ways to hide that we have to find them."
Ahumada and his team's seven cameras in various wildlife sanctuaries in Suriname, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Tanzania, Brazil, Uganda and Laos. Suriname has at least the most diverse and Laos. Their findings were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
"What a great study," said biologist at Stanford University Terry Root, who was not involved. "Mammals are very difficult to identify because they are afraid of humans and have better ways to hide that we have to find them."
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