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[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Where an animal is camera trap shy or camera trap happy, detection probability is compromised and the assumptions of the method cannot be met. Even the study of animal behavior can be compromised if an animal exhibits atypical behavior (Gibeau and McTavish 2009). Attraction of certain species and individuals to our camera traps would confound assumptions of some other population estimators (Table S2) because the device effectively becomes a lure (Foster and Harmsen 2012).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829047/

I gotchu fam.

Granted I don't know if it's the same kind of trap happy, but at least it's a phrase in one research paper.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Looks like it's talked about in more detail here from that passage. Nice find.

this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
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