Use of Automated Behaviour Response
System
As documented by Suraci et al. (2016), most of the modern camera
traps are capable to record both audio and video at the same time,
though a small subset of the camera traps studies have made use of the
capability to record the behavioural responses of the animals in
real-time (Rowcliffe et al. 2012; Weinstein 2015). Justin Suraci
and their research team provided ABR (Automated behavioural response
system) which can be used as an acoustic cue to design the LOF study.
Using the ABR, they successfully tested the responses of species ranging
from elephants (5250 kg) to squirrels (0.2 kg). Since 2016, playbacks
experiments have been used to test the behavioural responses of species
with an impressive acoustic range, including the vocalizations of the
other species (Blumstein 2014; King 2015), and anthropogenic noises
(Francis & Barber 2013). Through this study we can integrate recent
models of LOF to real-time conservation practices (Berger-Tal et
al. 2011)