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					<title>New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-zealand-put-fishing-boats-under-camera-surveillance-will-it-stay-the-course/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-zealand-put-fishing-boats-under-camera-surveillance-will-it-stay-the-course/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Sep 2026 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[New Zealand, Oceania, Pacific Islands, and Polynesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[cameras, Conservation, Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Marine Conservation, Monitoring, Oceans, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAPIER/DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — In 2016, a scandal engulfed Aotearoa New Zealand’s fisheries regulator. Leaked documents showed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) had found, during investigative operations conducted in prior years, systematic illegal discarding of low-value fish as well as other violations, such as failing to report the catch of an endangered [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAPIER/DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — In 2016, a scandal engulfed Aotearoa New Zealand’s fisheries regulator. Leaked documents showed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) had found, during investigative operations conducted in prior years, systematic illegal discarding of low-value fish as well as other violations, such as failing to report the catch of an endangered Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori), on commercial vessels off the South Island — and elected not to prosecute or inform the public of the findings. The controversy raised a question that conservationists the world over have long asked about commercial fishing: what’s happening on vessels when no one is watching? In the years since, the MPI has mandated onboard cameras across most of the country’s inshore fleet, which operates close to the coast, alongside other forms of electronic monitoring. The rollout, aimed at monitoring catch, discards, protected species interactions, and the use of mitigation devices, has put New Zealand near the leading edge internationally in the use of onboard cameras. This comes as fisheries managers across the world are discussing the use of electronic monitoring as a complement to, or even an imperfect substitute for, the onboard work of fisheries observers, who collect scientific data and report on compliance with rules. Yet electronic monitoring has its detractors, including even Shane Jones, the politician who oversees Fisheries New Zealand (FNZ), a branch of the MPI. He took office following a 2023 general election, after the camera system rollout was already underway, as a member of the conservative&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-zealand-put-fishing-boats-under-camera-surveillance-will-it-stay-the-course/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-329241</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-lost-philippine-pigeon-reappears-after-20-years-but-its-forest-is-disappearing/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-lost-philippine-pigeon-reappears-after-20-years-but-its-forest-is-disappearing/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Sep 2026 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Keith Anthony Fabro]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Technology, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country’s rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country’s rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to the nonprofit organization Center for Conservation Innovation Ph Inc. (CCIPH). “For an extremely rare and secretive species, a single image can carry enormous weight,” CCIPH researchers wrote in a Sept. 3 announcement. “It confirms that the bird continues to survive within the landscape.” Juan Carlos Gonzalez, an ornithologist and curator for birds at the Museum of Natural History at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, independently confirmed that the image shows a Mindoro bleeding-heart. “This record not only proves that this very rare species continues to persist in these steep rainforests, but solidifies the importance of Puerto Galera as a UNESCO biosphere reserve and an important sanctuary for this critically endangered species,” Gonzalez told Mongabay by email. Mindoro Bleeding-heart captured via camera trap. Image courtesy of CCIPH. Alex Berryman, who oversees species conservation assessments for Asia at the NGO BirdLife International, also separately confirmed the identification. “There is no doubt that this refers to a Mindoro bleeding-heart,” Berryman told Mongabay by email. Berryman said the orange-red spot on the bird’s otherwise white chest, together with the iridescent green plumage on its head and neck, make it readily identifiable. Gonzalez also pointed to its blue-green&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-lost-philippine-pigeon-reappears-after-20-years-but-its-forest-is-disappearing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-328564</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Koala on the road? AI signs could alert drivers in real time</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/koala-on-the-road-ai-signs-could-alert-drivers-in-real-time/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Mar 2026 15:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia and Oceania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Endangered Species, Environment, Mammals, Marsupials, Roadkill, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new AI-powered camera system could potentially make road crossings less of a nightmare for koalas. Scientists have developed a camera that can be incorporated into smart road signs to warn passengers about koalas crossing the roads. A prototype of the technology captured and recorded a koala crossing a road in real time in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new AI-powered camera system could potentially make road crossings less of a nightmare for koalas. Scientists have developed a camera that can be incorporated into smart road signs to warn passengers about koalas crossing the roads. A prototype of the technology captured and recorded a koala crossing a road in real time in the Australian state of Queensland, validating the methodology for the first time. Developed by scientists at Griffith University in Queensland, the camera is an expansion of previous work where the scientists built a database to detect koalas crossing roads. The Australian government has declared koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) an endangered species in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australia Capital Territory. Population counts of these marsupials are hard to maintain because they usually live high up in trees and are nocturnal animals. “They can be hard to see,” Douglas Kerlin, senior research fellow at Griffith University’s School of Environment and Science, told Monday in an email interview. “They are distributed across such a vast area that it is difficult to really know how many there are with any certainty.” Koalas face threats to their survival from multiple quarters. While deforestation and urbanization have destroyed eucalyptus forests, their primary habitats, they also face the risk of diseases. To make matters worse, the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020 decimated their populations across the country. As human encroachment into forests rise, these animals often have to cross roads to travel across their fragmented habitats. As a result, vehicle&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/koala-on-the-road-ai-signs-could-alert-drivers-in-real-time/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Penguins are breeding much earlier in a warming Antarctic, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Feb 2026 17:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biology, Birds, cameras, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Global Warming, Ocean Warming, Penguins, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands. They tracked their ‘settlement date’: when the penguins began continuously occupying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands. They tracked their ‘settlement date’: when the penguins began continuously occupying their nesting zones. The study, led by the citizen-science collective Penguin Watch at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, U.K., was published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Over that 10-year period, gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) began their breeding season an average of 13 days earlier in the year, though for some colonies, it was more than three weeks. Chinstrap (P. antarcticus) and Adélie (P. adeliae) penguins settled into their colonies an average of 10.4 and 10.2 days, respectively, ahead of their schedule a decade ago. These breeding changes are amongst the most extreme yet recorded for any bird — and likely any vertebrate — in response to climate change, the study notes. “This is a huge advance and an incredibly fast one … and that&#8217;s what surprised us,” says Ignacio Juarez Martínez, a biologist and the study’s lead author who conducted the research as part of his PhD at the University of Oxford. “It&#8217;s literally a world record.” Gentoo colony at Neko Harbour, on the Antarctic peninsula. Gentoo penguins are the least ice-tolerant of the three species studied — which also included Adélie and chinstrap penguins. They are expanding their range southwards&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-313994</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Primatology goes high tech — from bioacoustics to drones &#038; AI</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/primatology-goes-high-tech-from-bioacoustics-to-drones-ai/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/primatology-goes-high-tech-from-bioacoustics-to-drones-ai/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Oct 2025 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Manuel Fonseca]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drones, Endangered Species, Environment, Fellows, Forests, Monkeys, Primates, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Riding in a helicopter, Fabiano Melo, with the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, searched for the elusive northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), a large monkey in the northern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Flying over evergreen canopies with trees as tall as buildings, the researchers tried to spot light brown monkeys moving between branches. Finally, after almost [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Riding in a helicopter, Fabiano Melo, with the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, searched for the elusive northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), a large monkey in the northern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Flying over evergreen canopies with trees as tall as buildings, the researchers tried to spot light brown monkeys moving between branches. Finally, after almost one hour, they found one. Seeing the helicopter, the monkey started shaking the branches fiercely. It then tried to move out of sight, jumping from branch to branch as if doing parkour. At the same time, Melo took video of the monkey’s agile movements as it disappeared into the canopy. Even though the animal got away easily, the researchers now had an idea of where to look for them. “The problem is that they have very low densities &#8230; and if you go inside the forest and try to track animals [by] walking, it&#8217;s almost impossible to find them,” Melo told Mongabay. Primatologists — scientists who study nonhuman primates such as apes, monkeys and lemurs — once considered the northern muriqui among the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Habitat loss, isolated populations and hunting have made this elusive species critically endangered. If Melo wanted to find the muriquis to understand their distribution, he needed to improve his tactics fast. New technologies gave Melo a possible solution: fewer helicopters, more drones. In 2017, Melo started to build the “dronequi,” a customized drone with high-definition and thermal cameras, allowing him to find and follow the monkeys more&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/primatology-goes-high-tech-from-bioacoustics-to-drones-ai/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307996</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/survey-uncovers-wildlife-treasure-in-cambodian-park-but-also-signs-of-threats/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jan 2025 21:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anton L. Delgado]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, New Discovery, Plants, Poaching, Protected Areas, Species Discovery, Surveying, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first biodiversity survey ever conducted in one of northwestern Cambodia’s last forest frontiers has found potentially new-to-science species and recorded direct threats to what conservationists call a “small but precious” ecosystem. Spanning roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Cambodian-Thai border, the 60,000-hectare (148,300-acre) Samlout Multiple Use Area is part of the greater Cardamom [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first biodiversity survey ever conducted in one of northwestern Cambodia’s last forest frontiers has found potentially new-to-science species and recorded direct threats to what conservationists call a “small but precious” ecosystem. Spanning roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Cambodian-Thai border, the 60,000-hectare (148,300-acre) Samlout Multiple Use Area is part of the greater Cardamom Mountain Range and straddles the provinces of Battambang and Pailin. Samlout was one of the three first multiple-use areas declared in Cambodia more than 30 years ago. This designation indicates that the management of the protected area is meant to conserve natural resources, while also developing economic activities. Since then, however, the kingdom’s northwest has experienced deforestation at a rate matching a national, decades-long trend of forest loss. Munichan Kung, country director of the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, told Mongabay that people had previously thought “Samlout was too small, too remote and too degraded. They didn’t believe there was such a treasure of wildlife inside the area.” The Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation — started by U.S. actress Angelina Jolie and named after her adopted son from Cambodia — has funded projects in Samlout for more than two decades. The foundation commissioned the NGO Fauna &amp; Flora to lead surveys on bats, plants, reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds and mammals. The results of the survey found a plethora of wildlife, including more than 140 bird species, nearly 30 mammal species, close to 15 distinct bat species, and 50 types of orchids. These findings set new Cambodia country records, as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/survey-uncovers-wildlife-treasure-in-cambodian-park-but-also-signs-of-threats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New brown bear ‘stronghold’ in Nepal redraws species’ range map</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-brown-bear-stronghold-in-nepal-redraws-species-range-map/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Oct 2024 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, DNA, Genetics, Mammals, Mountains, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Researchers have discovered brown bears in a part of Nepal not previously known to host the species, prompting a call to protect this area as a bear “stronghold.” The finding, based on camera-trap images, also expands the known range of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Asia. It could also mark out the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Researchers have discovered brown bears in a part of Nepal not previously known to host the species, prompting a call to protect this area as a bear “stronghold.” The finding, based on camera-trap images, also expands the known range of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Asia. It could also mark out the Limi Valley, in northwestern Nepal, as a “contact zone” between two subspecies of this apex predator, the researchers write in a newly published study. “The bears weren’t the species we primarily set up the camera traps for,” study lead author Naresh Kusi, from the Himalayan Wolves Project, told Mongabay. As part of their research, Kusi and his project team have since 2021 run a network of 61 camera traps across an area in the Limi Valley that’s half the size of London. Since then, they’ve recorded images of species never before confirmed outside Nepal’s protected areas, such as the steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii), Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) and Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). A brown bear image from a camera trap in Limi valley in western Nepal. Image courtesy of Naresh Kusi This time around, it’s the brown bear — a species found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but which is so vanishingly rare in Nepal, at an estimated 20 individuals, that it’s considered critically endangered here. Yet Kusi’s team managed to capture dozens of independent images of brown bears in their camera-trapping surveys. “Although we didn’t estimate the size of the population in Limi Valley, based&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-brown-bear-stronghold-in-nepal-redraws-species-range-map/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289510</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Collar cameras shed light on quirky baboon diet</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar-cameras-shed-light-on-quirky-baboon-diet/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar-cameras-shed-light-on-quirky-baboon-diet/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 May 2024 11:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Mammals, Primates, Research, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[What’s on the menu tonight? For one of the world’s largest species of monkeys, it’s likely to be antelope poop. This was among the findings from a study in which researchers attached collar cameras on chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), native to Southern Africa. Apart from discovering previously unknown foraging behavior, the scientists were also able [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[What’s on the menu tonight? For one of the world’s largest species of monkeys, it’s likely to be antelope poop. This was among the findings from a study in which researchers attached collar cameras on chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), native to Southern Africa. Apart from discovering previously unknown foraging behavior, the scientists were also able to observe the baboons’ interactions with other animals. According to the study published in the International Journal of Primatology, the use of collar cameras gave researchers a “primate-eye perspective” of the animals’ lives. “Typically, in primate behavioral research, people tend to habituate primates to human presence. But by being there, you might bias some of the results in the data you collect,” Ben Walton, co-author of the study and doctoral candidate at the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, U.K., told Mongabay in a video interview. “These cameras take people out of the equation, and you can observe some really detailed aspects of their lives without the effect of human presence.” Primate populations have seen a drastic decline globally, primarily due to rapid habitat loss and indiscriminate hunting. While chacma baboons don’t feature among threatened species, their populations have also plummeted in their primary habitats. As human settlements spread into their habitats, human-baboon conflicts have escalated in recent years. “They go into farmers’ fields and cause economic losses for them, and then are trapped or shot in response,” Walton said. Researchers discovered previously unknown foraging behavior of chacma baboons in South Africa after analyzing footage&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar-cameras-shed-light-on-quirky-baboon-diet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-282593</doi>				</item>
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					<title>No animals harmed as wildlife specimen collection goes digital in 3D</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/wildlife-specimen-collection-goes-digital-in-3d/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/wildlife-specimen-collection-goes-digital-in-3d/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Nov 2023 02:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Ecuador, Panama, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animal Behavior, Animals, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Frogs, Research, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Imagine you’re leading an expedition in the depths of a forest. You discover a species of frog that piques your interest. Conventional rules of taxonomy dictate that you capture the animal, euthanize it, and take it back to a lab or museum. But what if it’s a rare or threatened species? What if the animal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Imagine you’re leading an expedition in the depths of a forest. You discover a species of frog that piques your interest. Conventional rules of taxonomy dictate that you capture the animal, euthanize it, and take it back to a lab or museum. But what if it’s a rare or threatened species? What if the animal you’re holding is one of the few remaining on the planet? Like scientists and researchers around the world, Scott Trageser faced this conundrum for years. The conservationist and photographer often found himself wondering: is it worth euthanizing the animal to take it back to a lab? Around July 2020 — at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when most people with an office job were checking in virtually, their digital presence on Zoom making up for their physical absence — a realization dawned on him. “I thought the technology was finally there to really push for digital specimens,” Trageser, executive director of Arizona-based nonprofit The Biodiversity Group, told Mongabay in a video interview. A digital specimen, in this sense, would be the animal’s digital avatar, a three-dimensional, high-resolution, true-to-life virtual model of the creature (but with the mic still muted). Trageser got to work, collaborating with Japanese electronics powerhouse Sony. The result: a 3D scanning system that can capture digital samples of animals in the wild, releasing them unharmed at the end of the process. While the technology is still in the early stages, Trageser and his team have used it to create digital specimens&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/wildlife-specimen-collection-goes-digital-in-3d/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-275917</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Gabon, camera-trap developers find the ideal proving ground for their craft</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-gabon-camera-trap-developers-find-the-ideal-proving-ground-for-their-craft/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-gabon-camera-trap-developers-find-the-ideal-proving-ground-for-their-craft/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Aug 2022 12:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Manon VerchotSanshey Biswas]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Gabon]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Mammals, Protected Areas, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera traps are helping researchers get a closer look at pockets of Gabon’s forests that were previously impractical to study. The Central African country has, at 80% by some estimates, the second-largest proportion of forest cover in the world, and only 2.2 million inhabitants. Many of its remote areas are hard to access — and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera traps are helping researchers get a closer look at pockets of Gabon’s forests that were previously impractical to study. The Central African country has, at 80% by some estimates, the second-largest proportion of forest cover in the world, and only 2.2 million inhabitants. Many of its remote areas are hard to access — and even harder to monitor. “Gabon in relation to the Congo Basin &#8230; first off, we’re a country that has never faced conflict,” said Brice Roxan Momboua of the National Agency of National Parks (ANPN). “The other strong point is that we have an 80% forest cover. There are zones where humans have never set foot. The majority is intact.” Camera traps have been around for 130 years, but their usefulness in research has picked up sharply in the past two decades. Development of the technology has allowed researchers like Momboua, who leads biomonitoring projects using camera traps in Lopé National Park, to spot species they hadn’t previously seen in some of Gabon’s national parks, like honey badgers (Mellivora capensis) and aardvarks (Orycteropus afer). For Momboua, camera traps are a huge improvement over alternative methods of studying Gabon’s biodiversity, like conducting transects — where researchers walk through a forest looking for traces of animal activity like dung, footprints, or nests. This can be grueling and time-consuming work. But a camera, once in place, can monitor a location deep in the forest for weeks or months and capture whatever passes in front of its sensors, including animals&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-gabon-camera-trap-developers-find-the-ideal-proving-ground-for-their-craft/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica&#8217;s Osa Peninsula: Video</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/massive-camera-trap-study-shows-conservation-efforts-are-working-on-costa-ricas-osa-peninsula/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/massive-camera-trap-study-shows-conservation-efforts-are-working-on-costa-ricas-osa-peninsula/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Dec 2021 22:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Costa Rica, and Latin America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Camera Trapping, cameras, Citizen Science, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Sensors, Surveying, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[After she collected a set of camera traps from the ridgeline above Corcovado National Park, conservation biologist Eleanor Flatt said that scientists, staff, and tourists all huddled around her computer at the Punta Marenco Lodge to see what images were captured. Camera traps, remote cameras triggered by motion, can be set off by something as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After she collected a set of camera traps from the ridgeline above Corcovado National Park, conservation biologist Eleanor Flatt said that scientists, staff, and tourists all huddled around her computer at the Punta Marenco Lodge to see what images were captured. Camera traps, remote cameras triggered by motion, can be set off by something as mundane as a leaf blowing in the wind. So, as blurry shots of bushes, fronds, and regularly seen animals appeared, she says, many lost interest — until a puma flashed across the screen. “Everyone came running back,” Flatt said. “They couldn’t believe it.” Camera traps installed by the local guides of Punta Marenco Lodge caught a puma (Puma concolor) traveling on a steep ridge in a  wildlife refuge on the edge of Corcovado National Park. Image courtesy of Osa Camera Trap Network. “We all know that rainforest animals can be super secretive and often never seen,” Andy Whitworth, director of the NGO Osa Conservation told Mongabay in a 2018 interview about the camera trap project, “especially some of the most charismatic species, like the cats, and weird and wonderful nocturnal beasts, like the hog-nosed skunk.” That’s why scientists launched the largest camera trap study in Central America to date. They wanted to learn how human disturbance affects where animals live and how they’re grouped on the Osa Peninsula (a spit of land on Costa Rica’s Pacific side about one-and-a-half times as big as Los Angeles, California). The Osa Peninsula is noted as an oasis of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/massive-camera-trap-study-shows-conservation-efforts-are-working-on-costa-ricas-osa-peninsula/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/hungry-like-the-maned-wolf-pup-clips-give-rare-glimpse-of-elusive-canine/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Oct 2021 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Carnivores, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Ecosystems, Environment, Protected Areas, Restoration, Rewilding, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap in Argentina’s Iberá National Park has revealed rare images of one of the world’s most elusive species: the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). A series of clips shows three maned wolf cubs playing by themselves outside their den, then nursing and eating regurgitated food provided by their mother, whom researchers have named Preta. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap in Argentina’s Iberá National Park has revealed rare images of one of the world’s most elusive species: the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). A series of clips shows three maned wolf cubs playing by themselves outside their den, then nursing and eating regurgitated food provided by their mother, whom researchers have named Preta. Rogerio de Paula, a maned wolf expert at Brazil’s National Center for Research and Conservation of Carnivorous Mammals, said these nursing and feeding behaviors have never been observed in wild maned wolves, making these clips particularly noteworthy. “That was the first report of this type of behavior in the wild,” De Paula told Mongabay in a video interview. “It was great to see.” In 2020, researchers at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, an NGO that partners with Tompkins Conservation, began placing VHF radio collars onto maned wolves inside Iberá to learn more about their behavior. In August 2021, they discovered three wolf pups living in the grasslands of the park, so the team planted a camera trap outside their den, which is how they got the nursing and feeding images. “It is not easy to find the species in the wild and register their behaviour &#8230; and even harder to find cubs since they are well hidden by their parents,” Talía Zamboni, a biologist at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, told Mongabay in an email. “Being able to monitor their daily life and habits add up to the knowledge of the species ecology and behaviour [which is] fundamental for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/hungry-like-the-maned-wolf-pup-clips-give-rare-glimpse-of-elusive-canine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248545</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/the-cat-is-back-wild-amur-tigers-rebound-in-china-thanks-to-govt-policies/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/the-cat-is-back-wild-amur-tigers-rebound-in-china-thanks-to-govt-policies/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Sep 2021 11:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[China]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, cameras, Carnivores, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Conservation Technology, Environment, Environmental Policy, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Technology, Tigers, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[There was a time when tiger expert Dale Miquelle wasn’t sure if there’d ever be a substantial population of Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in China again. In the 1990s, Miquelle and his colleagues estimated there to only be about eight of these big cats, also commonly referred to as Siberian tigers, left in northeastern [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There was a time when tiger expert Dale Miquelle wasn’t sure if there’d ever be a substantial population of Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in China again. In the 1990s, Miquelle and his colleagues estimated there to only be about eight of these big cats, also commonly referred to as Siberian tigers, left in northeastern China. But in the last eight years, change has come in leaps and bounds: recent camera trap footage reveals there are at least 55 Amur tigers living in forests in northeastern China. “Persistent efforts to protect tigers have paid off,” Miquelle, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Russia, told Mongabay in an email. “Change has not come quickly, but there has been slow, steady progress, and we see there are great opportunities for even more recovery.” According to a recent study in Biological Conservation, of which Miquelle is a co-author, camera trap footage taken between 2013 and 2018 identified 55 Amur tigers in four forested landscapes in northeastern China: Laoyeling, Zhang-Guangcailing, Wandashan, and the Lesser Khinghan Mountains. The scientists also genetically analyzed tiger scat, urine and hair to identify 30 tigers in the region. However, only Laoyeling is believed to support a breeding population, the paper suggests. The reason for the tigers’ sudden appearance in northeast China is due, in a large part, to a Chinese national policy called the Natural Forest Protection Project (NFPP), Miquelle said. “By stopping [the] harvest[ing] of trees in many parts of China, they essentially made whole villages whose&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/the-cat-is-back-wild-amur-tigers-rebound-in-china-thanks-to-govt-policies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-247359</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Human impacts leave reefs short on sharks and long on moray eels</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/human-impacts-leave-reefs-short-on-sharks-and-long-on-moray-eels/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Feb 2021 21:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, DNA, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Saltwater Fish, Sharks, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Demian Chapman and his colleague first started setting up underwater cameras on reefs in 2015, the aim was to capture a lot of shark video. But sometimes they got moray eels instead. Particularly at reefs where sharks were no longer present. “It was feast or famine,” Chapman, associate professor in the department of biological [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Demian Chapman and his colleague first started setting up underwater cameras on reefs in 2015, the aim was to capture a lot of shark video. But sometimes they got moray eels instead. Particularly at reefs where sharks were no longer present. “It was feast or famine,” Chapman, associate professor in the department of biological sciences at Florida International University (FIU), told Mongabay in an interview. “On reefs with sharks, you would see no eels. On reefs without sharks, that’s when you started seeing eels.” After collecting years of anecdotal evidence, Chapman and a team of international researchers embarked on a study: they wanted to see if data would back up their assumptions that eels were indeed present on shark-free reefs. The resulting paper, which was recently published in iScience, found that nearby markets had a negative impact on sharks and other reef fish in the Caribbean region, but didn’t have the same effect on moray eels. Consequently, eels were more abundant in places where sharks weren’t. A moray eel visiting a BRUV. Image by Global Fin Print. In the paper, this phenomenon is referred to as “market gravity.” The closer a reef is to a city, the fewer fish that reef will have. This is due in part to people fishing and harvesting species from nearby reefs, but also because non-target species have to travel further away to find their own food sources when nearby reefs become depleted. “When you look at the sharks, they follow the same pattern&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/human-impacts-leave-reefs-short-on-sharks-and-long-on-moray-eels/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cat fight: Jaguar ambushes ocelot in rare camera trap footage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/cat-fight-jaguar-ambushes-ocelot-in-rare-camera-trap-footage/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/cat-fight-jaguar-ambushes-ocelot-in-rare-camera-trap-footage/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Jan 2021 08:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America and Guatemala]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, cameras, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drought, Environment, Green, Resource Conflict, Small Cats, Species, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[An ocelot, a spotted and striped carnivore twice the size of a house cat, had just stopped at a water hole for a drink. But something was waiting for him: a jaguar. Forty seconds after the ocelot’s arrival, the jaguar, who was about five to seven times bigger, pounced from behind. Jaws clenched, the jaguar [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An ocelot, a spotted and striped carnivore twice the size of a house cat, had just stopped at a water hole for a drink. But something was waiting for him: a jaguar. Forty seconds after the ocelot’s arrival, the jaguar, who was about five to seven times bigger, pounced from behind. Jaws clenched, the jaguar dragged its victim away and finished it off. This incident, captured by a camera trap at a water hole in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in northern Guatemala in March 2019, offers a glimpse into intraguild predation — that is, the killing and even occasional eating of an apparent competitor. In this case, the two species appeared to be jockeying for access to the water. But while scat studies have suggested that jaguars (Panthera onca) have sometimes preyed upon ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), documenting such an event on camera is rare. “These killing events are sporadic in nature,” Lucy Perera-Romero, a researcher at Washington State University and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and lead author of a recent paper on the subject, told Mongabay. “The fact that we have it in pictures is incredible, as well as the confirmation they occur within this pair of species.” Local drought, exacerbated by climate change, probably had something to do with it, the paper suggests. “More prolonged droughts reduce water availability in the forest, resulting in more intense use of the few remaining water sources,” co-author Rony Garcia-Anleu, a biologist at WCS, told Mongabay. “This translates into more interactions occurring [at]&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/cat-fight-jaguar-ambushes-ocelot-in-rare-camera-trap-footage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/the-amazons-short-eared-dog-was-thought-to-be-a-scavenger-now-theres-video/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Nov 2020 09:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Biology, Camera Trapping, cameras, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Cryptic Species, Ecology, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Remote Sensing, Species, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2016, conservation biologist Holly O’Donnell was striding through the Amazon rainforest in southwestern Peru, recording every mammal she saw or heard while performing a line transect survey for the Peruvian NGO Fauna Forever. A few minutes into her walk, she smelled something fetid. Following the scent several meters off the trail, she found the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2016, conservation biologist Holly O’Donnell was striding through the Amazon rainforest in southwestern Peru, recording every mammal she saw or heard while performing a line transect survey for the Peruvian NGO Fauna Forever. A few minutes into her walk, she smelled something fetid. Following the scent several meters off the trail, she found the carcass of a nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which may have died due to a recent cold weather event called a friaje. She hurried back to Fauna Forever’s camp at Las Piedras Amazon Center to get a spare camera trap, and installed it near the dead armadillo. She hoped to capture a wild cat like an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) or a jaguar (Panthera onca) preying upon the carcass, but mostly expected to see vultures. A couple of weeks later, O’Donnell retrieved the memory card from the camera. As expected, she found clip after clip of vultures pecking at the armadillo. But then she saw something unexpected: A short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) darted past the lens, sniffing and nibbling at the carcass. “I didn’t believe it at first,” O’Donnell, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), told Mongabay in an interview. “[I thought] it can’t be a short-eared dog, it must be wrong. Maybe it’s a pet … but no, it was [a short-eared dog].” O’Donnell’s disbelief was justified. Short-eared dogs, a near-threatened species endemic to the Amazon Basin, are notoriously elusive, making them a difficult species to study. At Fauna Forever,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/the-amazons-short-eared-dog-was-thought-to-be-a-scavenger-now-theres-video/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236926</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Don’t cross this tiger mom: Close encounter in Russia’s Far East</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/dont-cross-this-tiger-mom-close-encounter-in-russias-far-east/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/dont-cross-this-tiger-mom-close-encounter-in-russias-far-east/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 Sep 2020 11:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=235275</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Russia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Bioacoustics, Camera Trapping, cameras, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Remote Sensing, Technology, Tigers, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 15, Aleksandr Rybin was checking a camera trap in Russia’s Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve when something red and long-tailed darted in the bushes in front of him. “A thought flashed in my head: cougar?” Rybin, a 45-year-old researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Russia, said in a statement. “No, what cougar can be [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 15, Aleksandr Rybin was checking a camera trap in Russia’s Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve when something red and long-tailed darted in the bushes in front of him. “A thought flashed in my head: cougar?” Rybin, a 45-year-old researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Russia, said in a statement. “No, what cougar can be here; we&#8217;re in the Far East. It&#8217;s a tiger! I thought, convulsively grasping at the camera.” It wasn’t just one tiger, but two. An adult female Amur tiger, or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), slinked down a path, while her cub bounded over to a puddle. A rare Amur tiger. Image by Aleksandr Rybin / WCS Russia. Thinking the tiger duo had disappeared into the woods, Rybin and his colleague got into their vehicle to drive away, only to encounter the tigress again on the road. “She looked at us menacingly and hissed in displeasure,” Rybin said. “Then I took these pictures. Like any mother, the tigress protected her child, and in order not to irritate the beast, we quickly left this place and drove on.” Rybin has been working for WCS Russia for the past 22 years, using camera traps to monitor Amur tiger and critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) populations. But encounters like this are very rare, he said. “I have had not more than 10 encounters like this,” Rybin told Mongabay in an email. “I especially remember tiger cubs I met in the wild — it was really exciting. Amur&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/dont-cross-this-tiger-mom-close-encounter-in-russias-far-east/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Camera snaps first ever glimpse of a troop of the world’s rarest gorilla</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/camera-snaps-first-ever-glimpse-of-a-troop-of-the-worlds-rarest-gorilla/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jul 2020 07:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Cameroon, Nigeria, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, Gorillas, Great Apes, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Photos, Primates, Remote Sensing, Solutions, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are only about 300 Cross River gorillas left in the world, making them the rarest subspecies of gorilla, or indeed any great ape. But in late June, a camera located in Nigeria’s Mbe Mountains captured an encouraging sight: a group of Cross River gorillas, including several infants and juveniles, moseying past the lens. This [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There are only about 300 Cross River gorillas left in the world, making them the rarest subspecies of gorilla, or indeed any great ape. But in late June, a camera located in Nigeria’s Mbe Mountains captured an encouraging sight: a group of Cross River gorillas, including several infants and juveniles, moseying past the lens. This is the first time such a large group of Cross River gorillas (Gorilla gorilla diehli), including babies, has ever been photographed together, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an organization that works with local community members to actively protect these animals. Before this, there were only a few known images of the critically endangered subspecies, which came from camera traps in both Cameroon and Nigeria. These include pictures of an adult gorilla with a missing hand, likely from a snare injury, a lone silverback, as well as a mother gorilla carrying a single baby on her back. “It is extremely exciting to see so many young Cross River gorillas — an encouraging indication that these gorillas are now well protected and reproducing successfully, after previous decades of hunting,” Inaoyom Imong, director of WCS Nigeria’s Cross River landscape, said in a statement. “While hunters in the region may no longer target gorillas, the threat of hunting remains, and we need to continue to improve the effectiveness of our protection efforts.” A group of Cross River gorillas in the Mbe Mountains. Image by WCS Nigeria. Andrew Dunn, Nigeria country director for WCS, told Mongabay in an&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/camera-snaps-first-ever-glimpse-of-a-troop-of-the-worlds-rarest-gorilla/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-232327</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Treetop cameras capture first known video of a wild roloway monkey</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/treetop-cameras-capture-first-known-video-of-a-wild-roloway-monkey/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/treetop-cameras-capture-first-known-video-of-a-wild-roloway-monkey/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Jul 2020 15:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Monkeys, Primates, Solutions, Trees, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[When conservationists set up treetop cameras in Côte d’Ivoire’s Tanoé-Ehy forest, they hoped to get video of the elusive Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus waldroni), a critically endangered species that hasn’t been spotted in 42 years. But instead, another rare, arboreal primate presented itself: the roloway monkey (Cercopithecus roloway). This is actually the first [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When conservationists set up treetop cameras in Côte d’Ivoire’s Tanoé-Ehy forest, they hoped to get video of the elusive Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus waldroni), a critically endangered species that hasn’t been spotted in 42 years. But instead, another rare, arboreal primate presented itself: the roloway monkey (Cercopithecus roloway). This is actually the first time a wild roloway monkey has ever been captured on video, according to Global Wildlife Conservation, the group that supported the camera trap project, along with the Swiss Center for Scientific Research in Côte d’Ivoire, Florida Atlantic University, and a number of other institutions and organizations. “You cannot follow the monkeys in such forests and must be very lucky if you want to snap them when you meet them before they flee,” Inza Koné, general director of the Swiss Center for Scientific Research in Côte d’Ivoire and leader of a Tanoé-Ehy community-based conservation project, told Mongabay in an email. “That’s why camera trapping appeared as the best way to get some footage from the wild. Until recently, most photos of the monkey were from captivity.” In a few short video clips, two different roloway monkeys are seen climbing along the branches of an ewuliké tree, searching for insects to eat. “We frequently encountered or heard the calls of this monkey in the forest,” André Koffi, a researcher at the Swiss Center for Scientific Research in Côte d’Ivoire who was directly involved with the camera trap project, told Mongabay in an email. “Our big surprise is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/treetop-cameras-capture-first-known-video-of-a-wild-roloway-monkey/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-232046</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tigers caught on camera lounging in a Jacuzzi-sized watering hole</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/tigers-caught-on-camera-lounging-in-a-jacuzzi-sized-watering-hole/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/tigers-caught-on-camera-lounging-in-a-jacuzzi-sized-watering-hole/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 Jun 2020 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Cats, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Endangered Species, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Poaching, Species, Tigers, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Conservationists set up two camera traps near a watering hole in a Thai forest — and then they waited. The first animal to step in front of the lens was a male tiger (Panthera tigris), who took a dip in the natural pool before sauntering off. Not long after that, a type of wild cattle [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservationists set up two camera traps near a watering hole in a Thai forest — and then they waited. The first animal to step in front of the lens was a male tiger (Panthera tigris), who took a dip in the natural pool before sauntering off. Not long after that, a type of wild cattle called a banteng (Bos javanicus) briefly stepped into view before getting spooked and sprinting away. Then, two Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) arrived, helping themselves to the green plants growing near the water. Over the course of a month, more animals visited the watering hole, including a sambar deer (Rusa unicolor), muntjac deer (Muntiacus spp.), wild boar (Sus scrofa), long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva), crested serpent eagle (Spilornis cheela), blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha), and even a jungle fowl (Gallus gallus). In one scene, a mother tiger and her three grownup cubs lap water and lounge in the pool as if it were a Jacuzzi. This tiger family stayed near the watering hole for five whole days, Anak Pattanavibool, Thailand country director at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), told Mongabay. “It was a dry period and hot during the daytime,” Pattanavibool said in an email. “Any water holes, not just this one, are valuable for wildlife during such periods.” The video was captured at the Western Forest Complex (WEFCOM), the country’s largest block of intact forest, spanning 18,000 square kilometers (6,950 square miles) and consisting of 17 contiguous protected areas, 11 national parks and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/tigers-caught-on-camera-lounging-in-a-jacuzzi-sized-watering-hole/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-231943</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tool use in puffins may point to &#8216;underestimated&#8217; intelligence in seabirds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/atlantic-puffins-tool-use-intelligence-seabirds/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jan 2020 09:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Iceland, and United Kingdom]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Birds, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[The camera traps that ecologist Annette Fayet had set up didn’t provide the clues she had hoped to find about puffin diets and nesting behavior. What they did provide, though, was some of the first evidence of tool use by a seabird. A 10-second video captured on an Icelandic island shows an Atlantic puffin, Fratercula [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The camera traps that ecologist Annette Fayet had set up didn’t provide the clues she had hoped to find about puffin diets and nesting behavior. What they did provide, though, was some of the first evidence of tool use by a seabird. A 10-second video captured on an Icelandic island shows an Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, picking up a stick and scratching itself. The discovery, along with a similar observation from 2014 in Wales, extends the ability to use tools to a new group of birds and raises questions about intelligence, cognition and whether this&nbsp;unusual behavior may be lurking elsewhere in nature. My camera traps to study #puffin diet didn&#39;t work that well for their intended purpose, but one picked up another interesting behaviour! Evidence of tool use in a #seabird, with @dora_biro_&amp; @ErpurSH now out in @PNASNews. @InsideNatGeo @OxZooDept https://t.co/FRtnkmMk2G pic.twitter.com/hJzK9b6NGb &mdash; Annette Fayet (@AnnetteFayet) January 6, 2020 The subset of tool-using animals was once thought to be a fairly exclusive club, with membership limited to intelligent species known for their problem-solving behavior. Until now, the authors write, scratching has only been seen in cerebral heavyweights like our primate cousins and elephants. The study highlights two instances of tool use in Atlantic puffins living more than 1,700 kilometers (1,060 miles) apart. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. But the discovery of other animals modifying and leveraging objects in their environment to suit their purposes has prompted something of a rethink of how we understand cognition. Recently, scientists recorded a family&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/01/atlantic-puffins-tool-use-intelligence-seabirds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-226097</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tests show multi-rotor UAVs can improve cetacean behavioral studies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/tests-show-multi-rotor-uavs-can-improve-cetacean-behavioral-studies/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/tests-show-multi-rotor-uavs-can-improve-cetacean-behavioral-studies/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Aug 2019 18:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/08/09181223/Humpback-Whale_Inverted-tail-slap_Vavau-Tonga_crop-1300-768x512.png" type="image/jpeg" />
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Pacific Islands and Pacific Ocean]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, cameras, Conservation, Drones, Endangered Species, Mammals, Marine Mammals, Monitoring, Oceans, Research, Surveying, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[A New Zealand-based research team assessing the utility of small, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to survey and study humpback whales determined that video data collected from a UAV improved upon data recorded by an expert observer from a research vessel, the standard behavioral technique. The team found the UAV captured some social activities not [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A New Zealand-based research team assessing the utility of small, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to survey and study humpback whales determined that video data collected from a UAV improved upon data recorded by an expert observer from a research vessel, the standard behavioral technique. The team found the UAV captured some social activities not detected by the observer, with no observable effect on whales’ behavior. They published their methods and test results last month, including clear descriptions of the selected UAV setup, UAV deployment from research vessels, and the data collected on the whales’ behavior using UAV-derived video compared to synchronized observations by a trained expert aboard the vessel. Researchers have successfully used video camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) to count and identify cetacean species, as well as to photo-identify and estimate sizes of individual whales and dolphins. UAVs offer a safe, lower-cost alternative to manned flights and so have become increasingly popular in cetacean research. Although small multi‐rotor UAVs offer only limited flight time (15-30 minutes per flight), research teams can launch them repeatedly from boats on the water and so can also track the animals’ position over time. The aerial viewpoint the UAVs offer enables scientists to collect behavior data, even when the animals are underwater. An adult humpback whale filmed from above performs an inverted tail slap in Tonga. Scientists don’t yet know the significance of tail slaps – do the slaps represent communication? Or perhaps a means of scaring fish down from the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/tests-show-multi-rotor-uavs-can-improve-cetacean-behavioral-studies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-221211</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior: video</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/baby-whale-wears-a-camera-reveals-its-travel-and-nursing-behavior-video/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/baby-whale-wears-a-camera-reveals-its-travel-and-nursing-behavior-video/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Jul 2019 16:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/07/25163032/Humpback-mom-calf_montereydiver_small-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=220791</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Indian Ocean and Madagascar]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, cameras, Cetaceans, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Monitoring, Oceans, Research, Sensors, Technology, Videos, Whales, and Wildtech]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Baby whales, like all young mammals, rely on their mother’s milk for their early development. A new video follows a nursing humpback whale and her calf and takes the calf’s point of view as it positions itself beneath its mom and begins nursing. A camera placed by researchers in Madagascar on the back of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baby whales, like all young mammals, rely on their mother’s milk for their early development. A new video follows a nursing humpback whale and her calf and takes the calf’s point of view as it positions itself beneath its mom and begins nursing. A camera placed by researchers in Madagascar on the back of the baby provided the unusual viewpoint. Researchers from Cétamada, a Madagascar non-profit conducting research, education, and ecotourism awareness raising on whales and other cetaceans, and the bioacoustic communications team at the Université Paris Sud in France have studied humpback whales that breed along Madagascar’s east coast, near the island of Sainte Marie. This is the “first-ever camera attached to a humpback whale calf to study mother-young behavioral interactions,” write the researchers in the video. The clip first shows the traveling whales and the calf&#8217;s visit to the surface to breathe. A humpback whale calf travels with and suckles its mother, the first time this has been filmed from the calf&#8217;s view. Note how the calf negotiates the mammary slits on both sides of its mom while the mother slows her pace to better enable her calf to feed. You can also listen for whale calls in the background. The video was recorded using a CATS Cam camera on a humpback whale breeding ground at Sainte Marie Island on the east coast of Madagascar. Video courtesy of (c) CNRS/ Cétamada. “It is very important for us to collect underwater video footage, Olivier Adam, a professor at Université Paris&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/baby-whale-wears-a-camera-reveals-its-travel-and-nursing-behavior-video/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-220791</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/conservation-tech-prize-with-invasive-species-focus-announces-finalists/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/conservation-tech-prize-with-invasive-species-focus-announces-finalists/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Jul 2019 15:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Agriculture, algae, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Conservation Technology, Drones, early warning, Frogs, Insects, Invasive Species, Monitoring, Oceans, Sensors, Surveying, Technology, Turtles And Tortoises, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Con X Tech Prize just announced its second round will be funding 20 finalists each with $3,500 to create their first prototypes. Some 150 teams submitted ideas that use technology to address a conservation challenge. The 20 winners of this first stage of the competition will also compete for a grand prize of $20,000, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Con X Tech Prize just announced its second round will be funding 20 finalists each with $3,500 to create their first prototypes. Some 150 teams submitted ideas that use technology to address a conservation challenge. The 20 winners of this first stage of the competition will also compete for a grand prize of $20,000, plus support from CXL on product development and attracting investment. The prize accepts ideas for any conservation problem, with a particular focus on addressing threats from a specific theme. This second round of the prize focused on reducing impacts from invasive species to native species and ecosystems. The first round, sponsored in 2018, focused on ocean conservation. Biotech Steve Orwig removes an invasive Mexican weeping pine (Pinus patula) from the crater of Hawai’i’s Haleakalā National Park. Pines like these grow rapidly, are spread by wind from nearby forest plantings, and disrupt native ecosystems by shading out native shrubs and taking up water and nutrients. Image courtesy of U.S. National Park Service. “We have a range of hardware and software solutions we are funding, including tools in aquatic invasive species, camera traps, ag-tech, human-wildlife conflict, marine acoustics, and many more,” said Tom Quigley, who manages the digital makerspace community at Conservation X Labs, which offers the prize. “It’s a really exciting cohort.” Seven of the 20 finalists focused specifically on designs to address invasive species, while the remaining 13 teams sought to address a range of conservation issues, from wildlife trafficking to acoustic monitoring to capturing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/conservation-tech-prize-with-invasive-species-focus-announces-finalists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-220645</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Film that fish: Stereo-video speeds surveys of marine fish communities</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/film-that-fish-stereo-video-speeds-surveys-of-marine-fish-communities/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/film-that-fish-stereo-video-speeds-surveys-of-marine-fish-communities/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Jul 2019 16:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/07/05154940/jacks-with-shark_MrCha_small-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=220246</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia, Global, and Pacific Ocean]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, data, Fish, Marine, Marine Animals, Monitoring, Oceans, Research, Saltwater Fish, Software, Solutions, Surveying, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Marine biologists survey fish assemblages and their associated habitat to understand the ecosystem of a place, compare fish communities over time or in response to changes in management, and examine fish behavior. These researchers typically survey fish communities through underwater visual censuses, in which a diver identifies and counts fishes within an area, usually determined [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Marine biologists survey fish assemblages and their associated habitat to understand the ecosystem of a place, compare fish communities over time or in response to changes in management, and examine fish behavior. These researchers typically survey fish communities through underwater visual censuses, in which a diver identifies and counts fishes within an area, usually determined by a predefined route, or transect. The method is a straightforward, non-destructive way to survey fish. Yellow wrasse in the Florida Keys. While not fearful of divers, smaller fish can remain hidden behind sponges and corals during a survey. Image by Sue Palminteri/Mongabay. However, studies have shown variability among different underwater data collectors and inaccuracies in estimating the length and numbers of fish in the sample area. Swimming a predefined route while simultaneously identifying, counting and estimating the size of fish is difficult and requires extensive training and experience. Moreover, researchers in different places conduct data collection transects in different ways. All this variation among surveys has made it difficult to either synthesize or compare findings from various sites and time periods. A multinational research team has recently examined how some of these limitations can be overcome or reduced by updating underwater surveys through the incorporation of diver‐operated stereo‐video, or stereo‐DOV. Their new scientific publication explains this method and provides a guide for researchers wanting to add the technology to their fish community transect surveys. Surveying with video instead of pencil The authors, from Australia, the U.S. and New Caledonia, explain that the size and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/film-that-fish-stereo-video-speeds-surveys-of-marine-fish-communities/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-220246</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/models-maps-and-citizen-scientists-working-to-save-the-great-barrier-reef/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/models-maps-and-citizen-scientists-working-to-save-the-great-barrier-reef/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>14 May 2019 16:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marianne Messina]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/05/13221542/Acropora_grandis_Staghorn_coral_forest_Nick-Hobgood-Wikipedia-CC3.0_small-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=218584</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia, Great Barrier Reef, and Pacific Ocean]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, data, Ecosystems, Monitoring, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Restoration, Surveying, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Any aquarist who has tried to grow a variety of the colorful Acropora coral in a hobby tank knows how delicate they are – “not for beginners.” And yet this sensitive group of hard, branching corals dominates the coral population of the Great Barrier Reef, lending color, structure, and tourist appeal. In April of this [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Any aquarist who has tried to grow a variety of the colorful Acropora coral in a hobby tank knows how delicate they are – “not for beginners.” And yet this sensitive group of hard, branching corals dominates the coral population of the Great Barrier Reef, lending color, structure, and tourist appeal. Blue Acropora coral. Image by Will Thomas, httpforgemountainphoto.com, via Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0. In April of this year, reports came out that the annual spawning of this coral showed a low rate of recruitment (growth of infant coral within a reef). These coral communities had been devastated when sea temperature rise drove back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017. It can take an Acropora coral community 9–12 years to recover from a severe bleaching event. A new approach to managing reef data In Queensland, Australia, a diverse group of organizations overseeing the Great Barrier Reef are committed to helping Acropora regeneration efforts. But they all need comprehensive maps – not necessarily containing the same information – of the Reef. In response, a multi-institutional research team has developed a public-access, predictive mapping tool that combines image data from professionals and citizen scientists to predict coral cover. “Citizen scientists, professional scientists, the tourism industry, indigenous communities, multiple sectors of our society are interested and invested in understanding the changes coral reefs are facing,” said Manuel González-Rivero with the Australian Institute of Marine Science. For scientists hoping to seed new Acropora colonies on the reef, for example, it’s important to know where&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/models-maps-and-citizen-scientists-working-to-save-the-great-barrier-reef/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-218584</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Lift-off for thermal-imaging system to estimate wildlife populations</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/lift-off-for-thermal-imaging-system-to-estimate-wildlife-populations/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/lift-off-for-thermal-imaging-system-to-estimate-wildlife-populations/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Apr 2019 15:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[James Fair]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Drones, Great Apes, Law Enforcement, Monitoring, Orangutans, Rainforests, Sensors, Solutions, Surveying, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-PGM-1803-2431]]>
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							<![CDATA[A prototype system to identify rare species in real time using thermal-imaging cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft, or drones, passed its latest test when it successfully identified orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Borneo’s rainforest. Having previously used the technologies to detect spider monkeys in Mexico and riverine rabbits in South Africa, a team of scientists developing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A prototype system to identify rare species in real time using thermal-imaging cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft, or drones, passed its latest test when it successfully identified orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Borneo’s rainforest. Having previously used the technologies to detect spider monkeys in Mexico and riverine rabbits in South Africa, a team of scientists developing the system plan to have it ready for widespread use in two years. During field trials, the airborne thermal cameras detected 41 orangutans, each confirmed by observers on the ground. It also spotted proboscis monkeys, which it distinguished from the orangutans, and Asian elephants. Proboscis monkeys in Sabah, Malaysia. These monkeys are smaller than orangutan and they move in groups, while orangutans are typically solitary. Image courtesy of Liverpool John Moores University and WWF. Thermal-imaging cameras detect animals’ body heat, so they do not require sunlight or a flash to illuminate their subjects and can be used at night. The tropical rainforest trials demonstrated the cameras work in a challenging environment where animals are partially hidden by vegetation and where the heat of the wildlife could be masked by the temperature of the surrounding habitat. The research team found the camera was able to pick up animals’ heat signatures through gaps in the vegetation, and they worked at first light before the surrounding environment had warmed up. Orangutans’ arboreal nature also made them easier for aerial cameras to spot. An orangutan by day partially visible amidst the leafy vegetation. The thermal imagery used in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/lift-off-for-thermal-imaging-system-to-estimate-wildlife-populations/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217602</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Virtual Reality 360-degree video: An “empathy-generating machine” for conservation outreach?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/virtual-reality-360-degree-video-an-empathy-generating-machine-for-conservation-outreach/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/virtual-reality-360-degree-video-an-empathy-generating-machine-for-conservation-outreach/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Apr 2019 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, cameras, Communication, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Education, Film, Software, Solutions, Technology, Videos, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[People of all ages love wildlife videos, whether it’s seeing previously unheard-of species, species interactions, or baby animals at play. New video technology that films in 360 degrees brings viewers into the middle of the action and is set to become a powerful outreach tool that can build understanding and empathy for wildlife and wild [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[People of all ages love wildlife videos, whether it’s seeing previously unheard-of species, species interactions, or baby animals at play. New video technology that films in 360 degrees brings viewers into the middle of the action and is set to become a powerful outreach tool that can build understanding and empathy for wildlife and wild places. As the use of virtual reality (VR) for teaching, building awareness, and marketing grows globally, the conservation community is also testing the technology through various innovative applications, such as viewing the world through the eyes of another species. Virtual Reality-360 video is another. VR-360 for conservation, in which video filmed in the wild is shown on VR goggles or a digital screen, is in the early stages of development but evolving rapidly. VR-360 puts the viewer in the middle of the action, an ideal perspective to help conservation projects conduct outreach about a species, place or threat, or to generate support for a protected area or conservation initiative. Putting on a pair of VR goggles can virtually transport you anywhere, in an instant. It takes you to the site of the activity, where you feel more like a participant in, rather than a remote viewer of, the situation. An emerging technology now available It’s already possible to film in VR-360 and present results of acceptable quality with off-the-shelf, plug-and-play products, reviewed here and here. Filming in 360 degrees initially required strapping several small video cameras together with the lenses facing in different directions and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/virtual-reality-360-degree-video-an-empathy-generating-machine-for-conservation-outreach/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217406</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/those-kicks-were-fast-as-lightning-kangaroo-rats-evade-deadly-snake-strikes/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Apr 2019 12:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arizona, Southwest United States, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, cameras, Deserts, Film, Predators, Research, Rodents, Technology, Tracking, Videos, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A student-led research team from three California universities has shown that desert kangaroo rats frequently avoid predation by rattlesnakes through a combination of speedy reaction times, powerful near-vertical leaps, and mid-air, ninja-style kicks. The research team tracked free-ranging rattlesnakes using radio telemetry and set up high-speed video cameras to capture potential predatory interactions when tagged [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A student-led research team from three California universities has shown that desert kangaroo rats frequently avoid predation by rattlesnakes through a combination of speedy reaction times, powerful near-vertical leaps, and mid-air, ninja-style kicks. A desert kangaroo rat in the desert of the southwestern United States leaps over a sidewinder rattlesnake to avoid predation. Image courtesy of the research website, ninjarat.org. The research team tracked free-ranging rattlesnakes using radio telemetry and set up high-speed video cameras to capture potential predatory interactions when tagged snakes took on their ambush postures near active kangaroo rat burrows or foraging kangaroo rats. The researchers recently published their findings on the factors affecting snake predation success and potential advantages of bipedalism among small mammals. Deadly predators and athletic prey Both sidewinder rattlesnakes (Crotalus cerastes) and desert kangaroo rats (Dipodomys deserti) are nocturnal residents of the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Rattlesnakes are ambush predators, meaning they sit still for long periods waiting until prey unaware of their presence get close enough. They eat various small mammals, including kangaroo rats, and attack by suddenly and rapidly launching themselves toward their prey and killing it with a venomous bite. Avoiding the stealthy strikes of a hunting rattlesnake at night, therefore, requires exceptional speed and athletic ability. Kangaroo rats have both: they and other bipedal small mammals frequently evade ambush predation by snakes. The seed-eating desert kangaroo rat in a quiet daytime moment. Its exceptional hearing, long tail, and long, powerful legs all contribute to its ability&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/those-kicks-were-fast-as-lightning-kangaroo-rats-evade-deadly-snake-strikes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217185</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Combining artificial intelligence and citizen science to improve wildlife surveys</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/combining-artificial-intelligence-and-citizen-science-to-improve-wildlife-surveys/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Mar 2019 18:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[East Africa, Kenya, Serengeti, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Citizen Science, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Mammals, Migration, Monitoring, Sensors, Solutions, Surveying, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A research team testing the capacity of both citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms to help survey the annual wildebeest migration in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania found that both methods could produce accurate animal counts, a boon for park managers. The iconic migration of 1.3 million blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and 250,000 common zebra [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A research team testing the capacity of both citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms to help survey the annual wildebeest migration in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania found that both methods could produce accurate animal counts, a boon for park managers. The iconic migration of 1.3 million blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and 250,000 common zebra (Equus quagga) between Serengeti and the Masaai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is the largest terrestrial animal migration on Earth. Over one million wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), plus tens of thousands of common zebra (Equus quagga) and other grazing antelope migrate seasonally across Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to find fresh grasses. Image by Sue Palminteri/Mongabay. The migration of so many herbivorous animals affects drives other biological process in the grassland ecosystem, including soil nutrient cycles, the balance of trees and grasses, and the abundance of insects, birds and carnivores. The population trend of the wildebeest in particular reflects levels of bushmeat poaching, disease, and other human disturbance. Understanding the health and dynamics of the migration is thus of key interest to both researcher and Park managers, yet the sheer numbers of animals have challenged monitoring efforts. “The major driving force in the Serengeti’s ecosystem is the abundance of wildebeest,” said senior author Grant Hopcraft of the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health &amp; Comparative Medicine, in a statement. “[The wildebeest] influence almost every variable in the ecosystem – everything from the return rate of fires, since they eat the grass, to the amount&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/combining-artificial-intelligence-and-citizen-science-to-improve-wildlife-surveys/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The odor side of otters: Tech reveals species’ adaptations to human activity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/the-odor-side-of-otters-tech-reveals-species-adaptations-to-human-activity/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Feb 2019 22:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Visvak P.]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia and India]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Camera Trapping, cameras, Carnivores, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, data, Deforestation, Drones, Fish, Forests, Human-wildlife Conflict, Mammals, Mangroves, Mapping, Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human-dominated mangroves are far from what is considered an ideal environment for otters. And yet an estuarine island on India’s western coast is home to a thriving population of the threatened smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata). Recent studies of this elusive species living in the brackish waters of Chorao island—far from the freshwater sources that otters [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human-dominated mangroves are far from what is considered an ideal environment for otters. And yet an estuarine island on India’s western coast is home to a thriving population of the threatened smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata). Recent studies of this elusive species living in the brackish waters of Chorao island—far from the freshwater sources that otters are typically believed to rely on—offer new insights into otter behavior that could inform future conservation efforts. A smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) pauses for a camera trap. These otters eat mostly fish but also birds, reptiles, and rodents found near water. Image courtesy of Wild Otters Research. “There&#8217;s not much written about smooth-coated otters in mangroves&#8230;especially in a human-dominated landscape,” said Katrina Fernandez, a member of the IUCN Otter Specialist Group and director of Wild Otters Research (WOR), a research and conservation organization. “The fact that the smooth-coated otter is so adaptable to change and to human-dominated landscapes, enabling it to coexist within this ecosystem, is fascinating,” she added. Although the smooth-coated otter has been documented across large parts of South and Southeast Asia, their presence on Chorao, in the state of Goa, has required them to adjust to a variety of vegetation types, most of which are subject to anthropogenic change. The most obvious of the adaptations that these otters have made is learning to live within the constraints of the khazans, a type of human-created landscape unique to Goa. According to Nandkumar Kamat, assistant professor at the Department of Botany at Goa University,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/the-odor-side-of-otters-tech-reveals-species-adaptations-to-human-activity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A snapshot of camera traps reveals user frustrations and hopes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/a-snapshot-of-camera-traps-reveals-user-frustrations-and-hopes/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Feb 2019 14:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Switzerland, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Batteries, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Monitoring, Research, Solutions, Surveying, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera trapping has become an important conservation and research tool worldwide. Photos from remote cameras have afforded us insights into the lives of rare, shy, cryptic, nocturnal, or otherwise seldom-seen animals. Remote cameras can capture images of a variety of rare, cryptic, and shy animals that would otherwise be impossible to view in their natural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera trapping has become an important conservation and research tool worldwide. Photos from remote cameras have afforded us insights into the lives of rare, shy, cryptic, nocturnal, or otherwise seldom-seen animals. Remote cameras can capture images of a variety of rare, cryptic, and shy animals that would otherwise be impossible to view in their natural habitat.These three cameras in a forest in Borneo found an orangutan, a pangolin, and a mousedeer. Images by Oliver Wearn. &nbsp; The idea is simple: Buy some cameras equipped with motion or heat sensors that automatically take an image or video when triggered by a passing animal, set the cameras out where you think the animal(s) will go, and let the animals take the images for you. Retrieve the images, and record all the interesting animals in them. Unfortunately, for many camera trap users, the reality has not been so easy. Cost, theft, and leakage A team of camera trapping experts surveyed researchers and conservation professionals to identify limitations to their successful use of remote cameras, assess their wish list of technological developments, and predict what next-generation camera trapping will look like. The 258 survey respondents from 52 countries use remote cameras for a variety of tasks: to inventory wildlife communities, answer questions about species’ distributions, abundance and behavior, obtain photos for artistic and outreach work, and monitor people, including potential wildlife poachers. A pair of Malayan porcupines (Hystrix brachyura) meet up on the forest floor in Borneo. Image by Oliver Wearn. It turns out&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/a-snapshot-of-camera-traps-reveals-user-frustrations-and-hopes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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