Camera traps revealed Northern tamanduas living in Barro Colorado Island, Panama. They are a medium-sized anteater found in tropical and subtropical forests | Credit: Claudio Monteza

Remote cameras have captured wildlife in a tropical rainforest island in Panama for over three decades — including ocelots, monkeys, and anteaters.

Barro Colorado Island is a tropical rainforest island in Gatun Lake, Panama, managed by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and used as one of the world’s most important long-term field sites for studying biodiversity. The long-term mammal monitoring project on Barro Colorado Island is one of the most unique camera trap systems in the tropics and the first one of its kind.

Glitter was a female ocelot living on Barro Colorado Island (BCI) with her three-month old kitten, Globug. They were first photographed by a camera trap in 2017 thanks to the long-term mammal monitoring project established on the island in 1982.…