If you ever wonder what happens in the woods when you're not around, a photographer in California just got a pretty intense answer.
It all started when Randy Robbins' phone wouldn't stop buzzing. "I woke up to 30 alerts from my cellular trail cam this morning," he wrote in a Facebook post highlighted by Outdoors.com. It was the beginning of an 11-minute drama playing out in his own backyard.
The footage is something else. A deer grazes under the cover of darkness, completely unaware that a pair of glowing eyes is watching it from the shadows. For several minutes, a mountain lion stalks it, perfectly still. The tension is incredible.
But this backyard standoff is bigger than just one wild video. It's a great look at why these simple trail cameras are becoming such powerful tools. Experts can use them for non-invasive monitoring, which helps them understand the health of wildlife populations. That kind of smart management is crucial for creating healthy ecosystems and protecting our food supply.
So what else are these cameras showing us? All sorts of things. They've captured the first-ever footage of a black jaguar mating and even showed an endangered Florida panther using a wildlife crossing to protect its kittens. This tech has even documented the triumphant return of jaguars to Brazilian parks where they hadn't been seen in 50 years.
Online, people who saw the clip were floored.
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"Wow! A predator prey interaction is one of those things most of us trailcam enthusiasts only hope for," one commenter wrote. "I'm glad for the deer, but sad that the lion went hungry."
Another person observed, "I think the cat actually had that limp when it headed off toward the deer… definitely worse after, but may be why it was unsuccessful…"
A third commenter put it simply: "That's why I don't mess with deer!"
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