discussion / Camera Traps  / 19 June 2026

Our first Lynx

Last month we delivered 10x thermal wildlife cameras to Lammi Biological station, Helsinki University. These are a brand new type of system for the wildlife world, a number of them were 640x612 resolution, others 384x288 resolution. Together we are building a first class thermal image based large parameter model for wildlife.

It's only been a few weeks now but we are already getting amazing images of Racoon dogs, badgers, foxes, hares, deer and Lynx..

Lynx is so special and we got such an amazing video I thought I'd share this. Actually, it's one of 4x instances we caught Lynx on video with the system in just a few weeks. Two encounters quite close and two way further than would trigger with PIR sensors, which really excited me. However to be fair, it sure helps to have @JohnLoehr  Lynx expert on case :-)

In addition, as the system records in full frame rate video continuously, we could wind the video back and see what he was doing before it triggered. Clearly not much in this video, but with the Lynxes in the large fields we can see their entire approach path from far away in complete darkness in hindsight.

Anyway, meet Arnold...

And here's the video

Lynx video on YouTube

We have many more thermal videos on our channel if you are interested.

PS. Does anyone know how to get that YouTube video to embed properly? In the past, all I did was put the youtube link in the doc.