There has always been a distance between humans and animals in the world. For many centuries humans have attempted to understand animals and the way in which they conduct their lives, but there have always been many unknowns and common misconceptions. Crittercams have been utilised to provide unique insights in the behaviour of different sea life and land animals. The article below talks about the process of using crittercams on large sharks in order to see the behaviour and habitat use. On the other hand the image and video shows the use of crittercams on seals. Specifically in the video it talks of the misconception that people in Hawaii had about seals, wherein the seals were framed to be nuisances, obstacles in the way of fishers. This led to unfair and harsh treatment upon the animals, which in the end was revealed to be unjustified. This evidently shows that the use of crittercams both reveals aspects of the behaviour of animals of which we may never have come to discover, while also disputing any groundless rumours that may surface about specific wildlife,  potentially stopping the hunting of animals out of vengeful or other types of reasons.

Talking on the mistreatment of animals, there were also a few works from previous Reading Natures students that highlighted the idea of ‘capitalocene’, how the corporate world does harm willingly to animals due to their greed. It is very tragic that this exists within our world, that laws need to be passed in order to state that animals do in fact have feelings. If possible, hopefully footage similar to what is shown in the video could be used not only to teach people that there are misconceptions that we humans hold against animals, but that there are many other instances where animals are unfairly hurt. That there are many other problems they face much larger than in the video and that we should seek to understand and protect them from corporate giants that care about their own success at the expense of animal life.



 

https://www-jstor-org.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/stable/24863857#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZwAk1vqfE&ab_channel=NationalGeographic