Pictures: "Lost" Deer, Rare Cuckoo Caught in Camera Traps
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Tiger Caught in the Act
Photograph courtesy Fauna & Flora International/DICE
In all, 189 tiger photos were captured during the survey (pictured, a tiger in December 2006)—making the Kerinci Seblat tiger population one of the best studied and best known among Sumatran tigers, conservationists say. (Visit National Geographic's Year of the Tiger site.)
"One of the real joys of camera trapping is that you get to identify individuals ... and, as important, get to see what was making the rustle in the undergrowth," FFI's Martyr said.
For instance, one FFI photographer discovered that a big cat had been following him as he set camera traps, Martyr said.
"He activated the camera, walked off, [and a] tiger walked through—not once but repeatedly, and always about four to five minutes behind him."
Published August 25, 2010
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