RESEARCH
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A small mammal trap is stapped to a tree in hopes of catching climbing animals in this survey of biodiversity in French Guiana, South America.
These nets were run at Smithsonian Institute's research station on Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
Ricardo Moreno (Smithsonian) releases a radio-collared ocelot from a live-trap in Panama.
Dina Dechmann (University of Zurich) carefully untangles a bat from a mist net at the Smithsonian's research station on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. (Photo credit: Christian Ziegler)
Dr. Roland Kays (NYSM) offers an olingo a banana peace offering as it leaves a live-trap with a radio-collar in Limbo, Panama. (Photo credit: Marcos Guerra, Smithsonian)
A small mammal trap is stapped to a tree in hopes of catching climbing animals in this survey of biodiversity in French Guiana, South America.
These nets were run at Smithsonian Institute's research station on Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
Ricardo Moreno (Smithsonian) releases a radio-collared ocelot from a live-trap in Panama.
Dina Dechmann (University of Zurich) carefully untangles a bat from a mist net at the Smithsonian's research station on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. (Photo credit: Christian Ziegler)
Dr. Roland Kays (NYSM) offers an olingo a banana peace offering as it leaves a live-trap with a radio-collar in Limbo, Panama. (Photo credit: Marcos Guerra, Smithsonian)
Animal Capture
A mammal in the hand is worth two in the bush, but there is no universal mammal trap. From mouse to moose, bat to baleen whale, there are almost as many different types of traps as there are mammal species. Mammalogists are always looking for a better way, forever in the quest to build a better mousetrap, which will let them ask and answer new scientific questions.