Le Cité des Mauxnia, site mockup: http://www.manofstone.com/mauxnia/

My project deals with the reintegration of urban wildlife, such as feral cats, pigeons, etc. with the other inhabitants of the city.

Site 01:  Carport behind house located at 45 N. 12th Street, San Jose, CA  95112

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This site was chosen because there is a feral cat colony that congregates in the carport behind this house.  Some of the cats don’t get along, so the residents normally have two feeding locations: at the carport and at the stairs leading to the house, but I was able to convince them to centralize both feeding locations at the car port location, so that the animals could be more easily filmed.

During the first test, the animals tripped the sensor over 80 times in 10 hours.  The typical behavior I saw was, nibbling.  Each cat returning to the food about every 10 minutes

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Equipment Installation

Home Security Kit with Infrared Night Vision

RCA Couplers to hook security cam to DV camcorder

Security Cam as input on DV camcorder

Cable fits through window while closed

Cables running from house to carport

Cable running across roof, to my room, window at top right

Security cam setup

Closeup of security cam

Site 01, the carport

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