crittercam

plural crittercams

1. colloquialA package of instruments, including a camera, that can be attached to an animal to study its behavior in the wild.

   Sophisticated shark tagging techniques and ‘crittercams’ attached to the animals have also explained a great deal about their behaviour.

   2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15

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   Studies with crittercams provide a visual record of everything that a marine mammal sees. For example, crittercams have revealed Wedell seals flushing prey from crevices in the ice.

   2005, Annalisa Berta, James L. Sumich, Kit M. Kovacs, Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, page 8