The unexpected image captured on a black-and-white digital photo on 23 November 2023 gave conservationist Meagan Bethel, who works for the American organisation Sky Island Alliance, something of a shock. She is responsible for analysing the images taken by around 180 camera traps used for wildlife monitoring that the Alliance has set up on both sides of the US–Mexico border.
In the states of Arizona and New Mexico on the US side, and Sonora in Mexico, automatic motion detectors trigger more than a million such images per year for the conservationists. The analysis isn’t always thrilling and takes ...
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