Wild African ape reactions to novel camera traps

(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, analyzed video from remote camera-trap devices placed in ape-populated forests throughout Africa to see how wild apes would react to these unfamiliar objects. Responses varied by species, and even among individuals within the same species, but one thing was consistent throughout: the apes definitely noticed the cameras.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news