A unique, large scale study enlisting hundreds of citizen scientists with camera traps, find wild mammals thriving near humans. The findings contradict assumptions that developed areas have fewer mammals.
Camera Traps
Revealing camera traps help with wildlife conservation
The camera trap—long a tool for hunters wanting to see what game inhabits anarea and for amateur photographers looking for a unique photo—is coming into its own as a conservation tool.
Candid Critters
Frank Graff talks with Dr. Roland Kays of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, where researchers are launching the the largest camera trap animal survey ever attempted.
Where The Wild Things Are
Researchers at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences are using camera traps, and enlisting citizen scientists, to study wild animal populations, behavior, habitat, and in a long term study, how human activity is affecting animal populations in a given area.
What’s My Story: Zoologist
Roland Kays started studying animals in a physics class. He thought he wanted to work in a genetic engineering lab but thought better of it when he saw a film about a zoologist peering into prairie dog mounds looking for burrowing owls. He switched his major to zoology and fell in love with mammals. Today, he keeps tabs on thousands of mammals in their natural habitats with the aid of new technology and citizen volunteers at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.