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Universal Trap Timer Design to Examine Temporal Activity of Wildlife
Author(s) -
SUTHERLAND DUNCAN R.,
PREDAVEC MARTIN
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of wildlife management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1937-2817
pISSN - 0022-541X
DOI - 10.2193/2009-217
Subject(s) - timer , trap (plumbing) , camera trap , computer science , trapping , wildlife , physics , computer hardware , ecology , biology , microcontroller , meteorology
We designed a reliable and inexpensive universal trap timer that records the time from the moment a single‐live‐capture trap is triggered by an animal to when the observer checks the trap. Combined with trapping information, the diel activity pattern of a given species or demographic group can then be described or compared between imposed treatments. The universal trap timer is adaptable to operate reliably with most single‐capture trap designs, requires no permanent modification of traps, and is easy to construct.