The Instant Wild app, free and newly released by the Zoological Society of London, streams pictures to your iPhone from camera traps in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and England's Whipsnade Zoo. pictures can even be seen via browser.
The ZSL and its partners run a network of 50 camera traps round the world. they are used to observe biodiversity and generally keep a technological finger on local pulses, however checking each trap and manually processing the images could be a time-consuming task.
Five cameras have now been configured to upload images to Instant Wild, where citizen conservationists are asked to help identify each animal.
For viewers and the ZSL, the prize sightings are endangered animals -- African wild dogs and black rhinoceros in Kenya, Przewalski's horses in Mongolia, leopards in Sri Lanka, even a rare-to-the-UK species of European hare at the Whipsnade Zoo. But the steady parade of animals captured with camera trap candor is a treat in itself. In the near future, cameras will be added from Nepal and Indonesia. "We hope to have many more cameras," said Baillie.
On the following pages are photographs of animals still awaiting conclusive crowd identification.
App On: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instant-wild/id464812695?ls=1&mt=8
The ZSL and its partners run a network of 50 camera traps round the world. they are used to observe biodiversity and generally keep a technological finger on local pulses, however checking each trap and manually processing the images could be a time-consuming task.
For viewers and the ZSL, the prize sightings are endangered animals -- African wild dogs and black rhinoceros in Kenya, Przewalski's horses in Mongolia, leopards in Sri Lanka, even a rare-to-the-UK species of European hare at the Whipsnade Zoo. But the steady parade of animals captured with camera trap candor is a treat in itself. In the near future, cameras will be added from Nepal and Indonesia. "We hope to have many more cameras," said Baillie.
On the following pages are photographs of animals still awaiting conclusive crowd identification.
App On: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instant-wild/id464812695?ls=1&mt=8
