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01/02/2014 GMT

Traps

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Catching neutrinos, unsuspecting gamers and pictures of elusive mammals

The pitfalls and pleasures of traps and trapping: with astronomer and neutrino hunter Ray Jayawardhana, games designer Margaret Robertson and wildlife ecologist Bill McShea.

This week Quentin Cooper talks to three people who are each guilty of very different charges of entrapment: astronomer Ray Jayawardhana is part of a movement building the most elaborate and expensive traps to snare the most elusive prey of all – neutrinos;  games designer Margaret Robertson lures us into them for our own pleasure – the trick, though, is making them just sticky enough to evade or escape from, to keep players coming back for more;  and wildlife ecologist Bill McShea uses ever-improving digital technology to develop cunning camera traps that catch glimpses of animals in the wild without disturbing their normal behaviour.

(Photo: A mouse and a mouse trap. Credit: Getty Images)

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