live trap

For bears that are intent on hanging around town, the team can use a live trap: A tube-shaped container, baited with seal meat, with a door that the bear triggers when it climbs inside.

The wild cat had initially been captured in a live trap between Forsyth and Maroa, Illinois, by a private landowner, according to the Herald & Review, a local newspaper.

That means after they've recorded an individual they live trap it in a net, chill it to put it into torpor - a hibernation state so it can be handled safely.

In an early published paper on trap performance, he tests out seven kinds of traps, catching possums and taking fairly basic notes: In a live trap, how often was the animal injured, and how badly?

A live trap set by Dave Pauli with the Humane Society of the United States brought him to the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter on Monday, Nov. 16.