In Primorye leopards addicted to “self” – Russian newspaper

The National Park “Land of Leopard” talked about a new enthusiasm for the rare cats: the Amur leopard are increasingly making “self.” Over the past year they have radically changed attitude toward photo-traps, placed on the territory of their habitat.

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For many animals camera have become part “of the forest interior,” they used to instrument and began to show interest in it.

How to tell the chief specialist PR FGBU “Land of Leopard” Mary Okulov, the scale fotomonitoring big cats and other animals is conducted in the “Land of Leopard” in 2013. Currently, the national park has about 300 camera traps daily fixing dozens of animals. Typically, the camera installed near the pathways by which the animals go, and also at higher elevations used by predators to review the site.

– For science it is important to get the pictures sides leopard. That they are unique pattern of spots on which the identification of animals. The task of scientists has never been to capture the full-face spotted predators, but over time those pictures began to appear in the database “Land of Leopard” more often – she said.

With regard to the camera traps, scientists can judge the nature of leopards with a certain stretch. As well as among the people, among the predators have incurious, shy, and, conversely, inquisitive individuals.

For example, some cameras pass by without noticing them, or trying not to look in the camera traps thoron. Others seem designed sit or lie in front of lenses, revealing himself from all sides. So behave, for example, leopardessa Bury that even “danced” in front of the camera. By the way, baby Bury (Leo 4F) was “a dreamer”, the quietest and cautious kitten, which is not very fond of playing with other kittens. But now it can be called the star of “Land of the Leopard.” Over the past eight months, she appeared before the cameras a few times. I like to show off and nameless until leopard Leo 82Un. He was engaged to the camera traps “charging”: reaching out, he noticed the camera, went to her and photographed with an open mouth.

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The Far Eastern leopard (Amur leopard) – a predator of the cat family. The Russian population has about 70 animals, the bulk of it resides in the Primorye Territory, in the National Park “Land of Leopard”. Using camera traps in 2014 there were 57 recorded spotted predators.

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