Discussion
Our study demonstrates that the use of a high-speed camera increases the
number of resightings and improves certainty of estimates of demographic
parameters. Our analyses showed that HSV provided additional data that
increased the number of resightings in our CMR data, improved estimates
of resighting and survival probabilities, and reduced the uncertainty
around the effect sizes of important covariates such as age and body
size. Such improvements can make a big difference in the monitoring of
survival rates, recruitment, or population size of wild populations.
These findings highlight the importance of integrating HSV in CMR
studies as an easy noninvasive tool to track wild populations of various
animals including those of conservation concern. Such integration could
open doors for various applications on population dynamics surveys of
insects, as well as for a wide range of fast and highly mobile animals.