WILDLIFE CINEMATOGRAPHY

Scientists and educators dealing with wildlife often have a difficult choice to make.  Observation of animals in the wild is essential to learning about their life-cycles, while animals in captivity need careful monitoring to assure they are healthy and well cared for.

The problem with this is that the process of observation can lead to negative results for the animals.  Each time a human enters an animal's environment it can negatively effect their feeding, breeding, or sleep cycles and result in health and psychological issues for the creatures.  In addition, some animals present a danger to humans who come in close contact with them, especially when the humans have inadvertently caused stress in the animals life cycle.

Remote vision has always held out the promise of reducing human interaction with animals in captivity and the wild, but this promise was usually compromised by the realities of the technology available.  

Security cameras designed for intrusion control in industrial applications rarely provide clear enough visual information for veterinary personnel to make initial diagnosis on sick animals, and these cheap cameras and systems are generally only useful in telling the location of the animal and if it is moving.  Game , or "trap", cameras often do not have a way of remote access, and must be retrieved to be repositioned. 

Wildlife researchers can instead install our systems with a selection of high quality camera heads and professional lenses.  All of our systems can use 12 volt DC power, allowing them to operate from remote power sources, and options exist that allow operations of the cameras through the Internet, putting the vision devices into the hands of the experts who may be thousands of miles away.