Filming wildlife is very difficult, but there's another way to appreciate wild animals at the Wujiao Nature Reserve, in Jiuzhaigou County of Aba Tibet and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Eighty infrared cameras installed at over 30 key monitoring areas in the sanctuary help monitor the animals. As the environment improves in the region, some 36 animal species were caught on camera in recent months.
A forest in Jiuzhaigou County, southwest China. /VCG Photo
Footage from a damaged infrared camera found by staff in March and restored later, showed a giant panda showing great interest with the device, which was eventually damaged by the curious animal. A month later, another camera caught a wild giant panda lounging and eating nearby.
Number of wild gaint panda is increasing. /VCG Photo
In May, a black bear was captured stepping over a fallen trunk. The first images of pheasants and dwarf musk deer, both under second-class state protection in China, were also caught on tape at the reserve.
The dwarf musk deer is very hard to be filmed in the wild. /VCG Photo
More recently, two infrared cameras recorded a group of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys walking through the forest. The footage also showed a mother monkey with its baby.
Sichuan snub-nosed monkey is one of the three species of snub-nosed monkeys in China. /VCG Photo
(Cover image via VCG)
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