29/07/2022
The teams track the animal by radio telemetry. Localisation is done based on signal strength and triangulation.In special projects contentious monitoring is done for keeping a record of movement, health & activities.
ST-10 & she has given birth to a cub. It is special because Sariska once lost all its tigers.
Tiger's whiskers are pulse detectors
They are filled with sensitive nerve endings, which help them detect distances and changes in their surroundings. When tigers hunt, they go for the kill shot: the carotid artery located in the neck. After the tiger's canines have pierced the artery, the whiskers move forward, encircling the prey's neck, and determine if the prey's pulse is gone.
Correction: Contrary to what the Sierra article says, the nerve endings aren't in the whiskers but rather the hair follicles.
Tigers are endangered and secretive animals and conservationists are increasingly relying on camera traps to take photos of them as they wander through the forests of Asia.
The traps provide a series of tiger mug-shots, which trained experts can match to one another based on the pattern of stripes. That gives them valuable data about the population density of the tigers, how long individuals survive for, and how widely they travel.
Tigers don’t pose for camera-traps, so the software has to be able to cope with shots taken from a wide range of angles and with tigers adopting different postures. To do that, it creates a three-dimensional model of a tiger.The test was a success. For every image, the programme managed to place a photo of the same individual in the top spot 95% of the time, and in the top five positions on every go.
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