Deercam TV: A Federally Funded Project

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"Until now we have had to use remote techniques such as radio transmitters or Global Positioning System collars to study wildlife behavior, but with (those methods) we still do not see what the animal sees," Millspaugh said.

Columbia MO (UPI) Oct 27, 2005
The University of Missouri-Columbia says it has developed a wireless video camera that's placed on a deer's head to see how it behaves away from humans.

The project - funded by the National Science Foundation -- is designed to give researchers a better understanding of how deer perceive each other and possibly provide information concerning chronic wasting disease.

Josh Millspaugh, assistant professor of natural resources, and Zhihai He, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and colleagues mounted the tiny, unobtrusive video cameras they developed on male and a female white-tailed deer.

The researchers have collected 200 hours of video showing feeding, bedding, mutual grooming and breeding activities, as well as recording sparring matches between antlered deer.

"Not seeing what the animal sees limits our inferences," he added. "We don't see what the animal is doing and why. Knowing that 'why' is critical to our understanding."

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Half-Animal, Half-Plant Microbe Found

Tsukuba, Japan (UPI) Oct 17, 2005
Japanese scientists have found a mysterious marine microbe, half of which cells eat algae like animals while the rest perform photosynthesis like plants.

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