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Lately, more and more such „gadgets“ like track cameras have been taken into use for recording activities in the forest – by hunters, foresters and also by people doing biological research. One tiny instrument, attached to a log or something, may often open entirely new angles or understandings which would otherwise be unnoticed by people.

 

Waiting in the bushes with a reflex camera would not be of any use for capturing some species. For that reason, track cameras are widely used for wildlife observations or monitoring. Quality is usually not so important with such camera images rather than the transmission of information. The secret eye which is installed in the proper location on the animals`track paths records the passing individual as a picture or a video into „its memory“ which makes it possible to distinguish different individuals later and in the long run to establish the numbers of the animals in the area. Of course, collected visual material alone is not enough but by adding it to the track observations and other observations, it gives a relatively good overview of the fauna of a specific area.

 

In the video clip, one can see the behaviour of a lynx who has come to the view of the track camera and who is coming to take a closer look at the instrument when the auxiliary lighting, which is invisible to the human eye, turns on. As other cats, the lynx is an extremely curious animal.

 

The wolf, however, acts exactly the opposite – when seeing the same kind of light, it flees immediately to the opposite direction of the „strange disturber“.