30th November - Further Brush Tailed Possum Interactions with Sound Lure

This will be the final post in this series for the foreseeable future - again if we look at the focus question that we were looking at over the last few weeks, was the sound lure repelling or acting as a deterrent to the target pest animals.

Night after night during the past month we have seen the same activity over and over again, the animals are coming into the area and interacting with the lure, the bait and the Timms trap and we have had repeated captures and activations.     Last night we saw a repeat of this - we saw three distinct visits during the evening, so slightly down on pervious evenings.   

However during each series of interactions we saw the repetition that we have experienced repeatedly.  The lure operates and the animals show interest.   We had a initial visit from a male from 10:50pm until 11:00pm, a second series of visits from another male at 1:19am and a final set of visits at 1:35am.

The final visit at 1:37am saw the brush tailed possum activate the Timms trap, however instead of being trapped the animal was able to remove itself from the trap and escape.   The animal did not return after this point.

The video that is contained the above includes some of the selective highlights of the activities during the evening.     Again it is part of a major data recording of a number of visits and the purpose of the video is simply to illustrate what is occurring when the unit activates and there is a possum near or next to the unit and how is the animal reacting to the noise that is coming out via the lure and the trap.