For decades, people all across America have been entertained by various incarnations/spin-offs of candid Camera, a show where people are caught, unbeknownst to them, in often awkward situations engineered by show producers. Well, this is not exactly the TV show, but something far more intriguing: a collection of candid photos of some of Earth's rarest animals caught by a series of hidden cameras placed in the wild animals' natural habitats.
The brainchild of the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Network, hidden cameras were set up in 7 countries on 3 continents in the heart of the wild in order to capture rare animals in their natural environments doing what they do when no humans are around. Let's face it: while nature documentary photography is good, there is an engineered nature to it as animals will behave differently when humans in jeeps are filming them for TV programs.
Not so this time.
Camouflaged so that they would be unseen and equipped with heat-sensitive triggers, the cameras snapped pictures of anything alive that went by. The digital bag: everything from large mammals to tiny lizards and, oh yes, poachers, too.
For more info:
Conservation.org
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