Building an Epic Camera Trap In The Peruvian Amazon

Описание: Film in Tambopata , Peru
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I am a wildlife photographer based in the amazon jungle of southeastern Peru. I use special camera traps to photograph rare animals. A camera trap is a remotely activated camera that is equipped with a motion sensor or an infrared sensor as a trigger. Camera trapping is a method for capturing wild animals on film when researchers are not present, and has been used in ecological research for decades.

I set this camera trap up using a Canon 7D, a TrailMaster IR trigger and two Nikon SB-28 flash units.

I got all sorts of cool pics including Puma, Peccary, Margay, Ocelot and a Spix's Guan.

When I came back to check on the camera trap I saw that a colony of termites had started building a nest inside and around his camera, destroying it in the process. At first I thought that they only got at the outside of the camera and that it would be fine But when I took the lens off I saw that they were inside the camera started building on the lens as well. They even started eating the memory card that was inside the camera

The termites look to be some sort of nasutitermes. The nasute termite genus Nasutitermes is widely distributed all over the tropical regions. They get their name because the soldier caste possesses a frontal projection called the nasus.

There are around 70 nasutiterme species in the neotropics.

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