Sprint

• by tgr

  What an impressive #sprint! What would be hunting these in the middle of the night? Or is it just #scared?

  Posted December 13, 2012 1:58 PM

• by aliburchard scientist, translator

  Most of our larger carnivores are primarily nocturnal - lions, leopards, and hyenas. So it could be running from them -- or just spooked

  Posted December 13, 2012 4:43 PM

• by tgr

  Oh, I see. Thanks for the info!

  By the way, this is obviously using some kind of flash for the camera, is that UV or IR or visible? I'd imagine visible light would spook the poor thing even more 😃

  Posted December 13, 2012 4:47 PM

• by kosmala scientist

  We used infrared for our first season. But you can see that the night shots are pretty blurry as a result (this image, for example). So in subsequent seasons we switched to an incandescent flash. You'd think it might scare the wildlife off, but we haven't found that to be the case.

  Posted December 13, 2012 4:57 PM

• by tgr

  Interesting! Thanks.

  Posted December 13, 2012 5:01 PM