http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2008/11/21/andean-bears-ready-for-their-closeup/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:40:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2008/11/21/andean-bears-ready-for-their-closeup/comment-page-1/#comment-413899 Russ Van Horn Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:50:09 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=2766#comment-413899 For these initial exploratory efforts, we selected camera sites in promising-looking habitat, along well-used animal trails away from roads and human trails. In the future, when we have more cameras and better information about the distribution of different habitats, we'll use a more objective strategy to select camera sites. For these initial exploratory efforts, we selected camera sites in promising-looking habitat, along well-used animal trails away from roads and human trails. In the future, when we have more cameras and better information about the distribution of different habitats, we’ll use a more objective strategy to select camera sites.

]]> http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/blog/2008/11/21/andean-bears-ready-for-their-closeup/comment-page-1/#comment-401910 njr_sd Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:25:39 +0000 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/?p=2766#comment-401910 How do you pick the spots to set up the camera traps? Do you just pick a likely looking animal trail? Sounds like finding a bear to put a GPS collar on is going to be a challenge - good luck! How do you pick the spots to set up the camera traps? Do you just pick a likely looking animal trail? Sounds like finding a bear to put a GPS collar on is going to be a challenge – good luck!

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