Celebrating Wild Cats

Photo: Woodland Park Zoo

In celebration of National Wildlife Week, Woodland Park Zoo published my post about Washington’s wild cats on their blog today. More specifically, I wrote about the zoo’s efforts to document wild cats and other carnivores with remote cameras in greater Seattle and beyond—research in which I am proudly involved.

We're big fans of using motion-triggered cameras to help us learn more about the wildlife around us. Impassioned volunteers with the Seattle Urban Carnivore Project maintain dozens of cameras throughout greater Seattle, while researchers with the broader Northwest Carnivore Monitoring Program gather important camera data from the Cascades and the Olympics. And of the many amazing animals we observe with our remote cameras, perhaps none are more entertaining than the wild cats…