Meet the elusive smalleye stingray. This giant of the sea was caught on film off the coast of Mozambique. Giant Stingray on BBC.

You might have noticed that a good number of the critters featured in this exhibition are predators. This might be due to the relative size of predators; big bodies make for larger cameras. Maybe it is because we’re omnivorous humans and watching other animals hunt triggers something deep and hardwired in our brains. In any case, the way a fish or rat or zebra dodges, hides, and escapes being eaten might just prove equally as captivating.  

By planting microphones at watering holes in the jungles of Central Africa, researchers have found a new way of tracking elephants. The vocalizations of the large pachyderms are distinguishable from one another using technology used to decipher bird songs. The recordings can be analyzed at a distance, meaning researchers can now skip hours of dung sampling. 

For more information, visit Cornell’s Elephant Listening Project. (www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/)

National Geographic has used Crittercam to capture an amazing amount of information about the lives of animals as different as narwhals and house cats. Despite technological advances, there are certainly some creatures that can’t be “camed” just yet.  I’d be curious to see what steers clear of these two, and if they even notice the approaching divers.