about going to the woods today,
'if you go down to the woods today, you better go in disguise',
but the thing is if you go down to the land of the Jaguar you might have to change the lyrics to these,
'if you go down to the woods today, you could be in for a big surprise!
you had better watch what after shave you are wearing,
if you watch nature programs
you will be aware of camera traps, a camera is positioned on a tree
or rock that is a known animal trail, every time a animal passes it breaks a
infrared beam and a picture is taken, if it becomes night a flash is also used
to capture the shot, so set up camera retire to base camp sink a few cocktails
pick up film the next morning and home for tea and medals, but here is the rub,
sometimes you have to attract the animal you want to walk past your camera
trap, now lets say you are in the Amazon or the jungle in Nicaragua and you want a picture of
a Jaguar, how do you attract one to walk past?
use after shave! according to Miguel Ordeñana, a
biologist with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and an expert on
camera traps, not any old after shave, only the best is attractive to wild
Jaguars, in this case Calvin Klein Obsession for Men, the
idea belongs to a Bronx Zoo researcher who tried a bunch of different scents
before discovering the jaguar’s affinity for Calvin Klein, what’s special about
the cologne is that its two main ingredients – civetone and vanilla extract –
create a combination that’s irresistible to these big cats,
civetone,
one of the world’s oldest perfume ingredients, is a chemical compound derived
from the scent glands of civets, small nocturnal cat-like animals that are
native to the Asian and African tropics, it is thought that the civetone resembles some sort of territorial marking to the jaguar, and so it responds by rubbing its own scent on it, vanilla is
believed to spark the cat’s curiosity, I wonder if it would work on other
difficult to photograph big cats?
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