The wildlife can be amazing. Further evidence of this is the black bear who, perhaps by accident, spotted a camera installed at the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP), a park in Colorado, and ended up taking hundreds of selfies showing his face. his paw and whatever else might.
“Of the 580 photos taken [pela câmera], about 400 were bear selfies”, the OSMP revealed this week on social networks.
Nine of these devices are spread over the 46,000 hectares of the ecological park, which are used to record the behavior of the animals and to devise new protection measures based on this. The cameras reduce the number of people visiting these areas by being triggered when an animal passes in front of them, and can also capture 1030 second videos.
These photos also help to feed a database. There are several types that are classified as “data deficiency”. by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listing endangered or threatened animals. Solutions like these cameras can even help to reduce the cost of this surveillance, which in special cases can be very expensive. Of course, the black bear, common in the US, is not on this list and is classified as a Least Concern species.