Spring 2023
AI for wildlife conservation—from an AI
An experiment with AI writing » More ...
Wildlife biology
Fall 2021
The missing lynx
Doing some hard looking for an elusive cat. » More ...
Spring 2018
To catch a cat
Trekking through one of the largest unexplored rainforests in the world, La Mosquitia in Honduras, Travis King set up traps last spring to catch jaguars—or whatever other animal came into range of the cameras.
King, an environmental science graduate student at Washington State University, was one of twelve biologists conducting the first biological survey of the area known as La Ciudad Blanca or the Lost City of the Monkey God, astounding ruins first identified in 2012.
It was already familiar work for King, who has used remote-sensing camera traps and other methods to identify the behavior and distribution of elusive big cats … » More …
Spring 2018
Gallery: Central Washington wildlife caught on camera
Using over 400 motion-activated camera traps, Washington State University wildlife biologist Daniel Thornton and his graduate students Travis King and Arthur Scully searched for the rare and elusive lynx in the Kettle Mountains and north Cascades of central Washington.
An assistant professor in the School of Environmental Science, Thornton led the largest lynx camera survey ever done in the state in 2016. The researchers found the first photographic evidence of a lynx in the Kettles in nearly two decades.
Read more about Thornton’s research on lynx. You can also read about Travis King and his work in both Washington and Central America in “» More …