Nice photos of animals taken with automatic camera traps

Forest rabbits in a storm, tiger reptiles . is one of the winning photos of the 2012 Automatic Camera Trap Animal Contest organized by BBC Wildlife Journal.

Overcoming hundreds of photos, the Zhugeeng newspaper by Zhou Zhefeng, China won the Animal Portrait category, and won the top prize of the contest with a prize of £ 3,000 ($ 4,800). .

Automated camera trapping has now become the most important tool for scientists in field research, which greatly helps them in preserving precious local animals. Thanks to this tool, new scientists record the behavior of animals, their movements, population and distribution in the wild.

Here are the winning photos:

Jaguar - first prize in the category "Animal Portrait" - (Photo: Zhou Zhefeng)

Wild hare in a storm - second prize in the category "Chan
animal content "- (Photo: Beatriz Estanque, Portugal)

Oreophasis derbianus - second prize in the genre
"Animal portrait" - (Photo: Javier Rivas, Guatemala)

Tiger to re-affirm rhino - first prize of category "Animal behavior" - (Photo: Sandesh Kadur, India)

American Jaguar eating turtles - second prize of "Animal behavior" - (Photo: Alonso Sanchez, Costa Rica)

Ganoderma 'steals' the prey - the consolation prize
category "Animal behavior" - (Photo: WWF in India)

Happy house of double bird Chlamydera maculata
- Vote editor's award - (Photo: Jess Isden)