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Lack of Surprise at The Camera Study Results!
April 3, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 31 weeks ago
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It seems completely self-evident that these results confirm:
1) There are more camera triggering exposures of humans using ATVs than on foot, or of animals, or of animals and humans not on ATVs put together. Simply put, ATVs enable users to cover much more ground, thus gathering more exposures.
2) Large carnivores are more active on the trails and roads when there are not humans around. Seems they don't want to get run over by those noisy, smelly, fast moving things either.
3) The biggest "overlap" of human/large mammal use is when the humans first enter the wilderness areas in numbers during the morning.
4) There is a definite correlation between human use and lessened animal activity.
While it is certainly useful to have actual numbers to affirm observations that have been common to all who use/live on this "blue marble", why is it newsworthy? I ask: Did someone get paid for these pithy observations? Can any of the rest of the planets population get grants or employment for studies of how such amazingly obvious phenomenon have yet to be recorded so that academia can understand what anyone watching squirrels in their backyards already knows?