A Giant Armadillo Ohotographed at Night (IMAGE)

University of East Anglia

A Giant Armadillo Ohotographed at Night

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Caught on camera: Amazonian crop raiders Papped snaffling in the jungle, a striking set of photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals. A new study from the University of East Anglia (UK) identifies the Amazon's 'worst offending' crop destroyers -- and highlights the problems caused for rural communities. The research team spent a year working with 47 Amazonian communities in the Juruá region of Amazonas, Brazil. They set up 132 motion-activated camera traps and took over 61,000 photos that reveal 11 crop-raiding animals, which were identified in interviews. Collared peccaries, red brocket deer, paca and agoutis are identified as the most damaging. They also conducted 157 interviews with rural farmers to see how communities are impacted by wild animals eating their crops.

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