Crittercam Expeditions Around the World, on Land and in the Sea

Interpret the Map What do the red dots represent? Chichagof Island, Alaska: 2002, 2003 Grizzly Bear Grizzly bears aren’t as unfriendly as they look—to other bears. After the team released this grizzly with the Crittercam, it joined a mom and her two bear cubs. Surprisingly, the bears napped together and even shared meals! Svalbard, Norway: 1997 Bearded Seal Cameras showed three-week old bearded seal pups exploring the sea floor alone. They used their noses and flippers to dig in the sand. Scientists still need to learn more, but they think the babies may have learned this from their mom. False Bay, South Africa: 2004, 2005 Great White Shark Crittercam found that great white sharks don’t seem to mind sharing their space with other great whites. Maybe these sharks are friendlier with each other than we thought! Key Location of Crittercam expeditions

Interpret the Map What do the red dots represent?

Chichagof Island, Alaska: 2002, 2003

Grizzly Bear

Grizzly bears aren’t as unfriendly as they look—to other bears. After the team released this grizzly with the Crittercam, it joined a mom and her two bear cubs. Surprisingly, the bears napped together and even shared meals!

Svalbard, Norway: 1997

Bearded Seal

Cameras showed three-week old bearded seal pups exploring the sea floor alone. They used their noses and flippers to dig in the sand. Scientists still need to learn more, but they think the babies may have learned this from their mom.

False Bay, South Africa: 2004, 2005

Great White Shark

Crittercam found that great white sharks don’t seem to mind sharing their space with other great whites. Maybe these sharks are friendlier with each other than we thought!

    Key

  • Illustration of a red dot used in the map's keyLocation of Crittercam expeditions

Before You Move On

  • 1. Explain How do the scientists get the cameras off the animals?

  • 2. Conclusion Why is it a bad idea to leave Crittercam attached to animals forever?

  • 3. Judgments Was Marshall’s project a success? How do you know?