Camera Traps
We are researching rabbits in their natural environment and this does not involve causing harm to any animals at any stage of our research. By furthering understanding of rabbit behaviour, our work may inform welfare and conservation practices for wild and domestic rabbits. All our work has been approved by the University of Exeter ethics committee (Application ID - 5171618). If you have any concerns or questions, please get in touch through our contact page.
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Before we can research individual rabbits, we need to have an idea of where they are across the campus, and what burrows they are using. One way we are doing this is by using camera traps to capture footage of rabbits. Camera traps are motion activated and capture short videos, or a series of images when they sense movement.
These allow us to monitor rabbits in a non-invasive way that does not disturb the animals and provides an important basis for some of the further work we will be doing.
We also find lots of other animals on our camera traps such as badgers, foxes and squirrels. See some of our highlights below!
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