Marcella Kelly
uses strategically placed, infrared,
motion-sensitive cameras for studying jaguar populations
in Las Cuevas.
“It’s very difficult to sight jaguars
in the wild. When you put these cameras out, you
can start collecting a catalog of photographs of
each individual over time. I don’t remember
how camera trapping came up, but it was like a little
light bulb went off immediately: The trap is the
camera frame—the capture in this case is a
photograph. You’ve captured the animal by photographing
it.”—Marcella Kelly, Biologist
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