Trail cameras allow researchers to spot skittish wildlife – but when scientists place cameras in the wild, they never know quite what they are going to see. One research group focused on understanding wolves placed a camera on a deer carcass, suspecting potential bobcat activity, and instead captured rare footage of baby cougars.
Earlier this year, the Minnesota Voyaguers Wolf Project received a notification that one of their GPS-collared deer had died. The researchers went out and located the carcass – inside the Voyageur National Park in the northern part of the state – and decided to place two trail cameras in the area to see what animals returned to the site.
