Bring your own camera to the trap: An inexpensive, versatile, and portable triggering system tested on wild hummingbirds.

ABSTRACT: The study of animals in the wild offers opportunities to collect relevant information on their natural behavior and abilities to perform ecologically relevant tasks. However, it also poses challenges such as accounting for observer effects, human sensory limitations, and the time intensiveness of this type of research. To meet these challenges, field biologists have deployed camera traps to remotely record animal behavior in the wild. Despite their ubiquity in research, many commercial camera traps have limitations, and the species and behavior of interest may present unique challenges. For example, no camera traps support high-speed video recording. We present a new and inexpensive camera trap system that increases versatility by separating the camera from the triggering mechanism. Our sy

SUBMITTER: Rico-Guevara A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496556 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature