The use of thermal technologies in this configuration has the potential to not only improve the detection of animals in many habitat types but has the potential to enable the following of animals during a pursuit (by the thermal imager operator while the shooter is focused on their target), thereby reducing the likelihood of losing other animals in the group. More efficient tracking could also improve animal welfare outcomes by reducing the probability that animals are shot/wounded and then escaped in thick vegetation before death is confirmed. Hampton et al. (2014) described four parameters that could be quantified to assess welfare outcomes for helicopter- and ground-based shooting programs (see Hampton et al. 2015). These parameters are wounding rate (WR; the proportion of animals shot but not killed), time to death (TTD), instantaneous death rate, and anatomical locations of bullet wounds.  As carcasses were not visually inspected, we could only collect information on WR and TTD.