- We're going to be setting
up a new camera trap to see if we can get some of the Costa Rican
mammal species on camera. What?
(Mario laughs) For real. Are you kidding? - No look.
- No way. Oh my gosh. Yes. This has been such an epic day. Love you Costa Rica. (film reel whirring) (upbeat music) It is our first day out in
the Costa Rican rain forest. I personally, haven't been here in almost two and a half years, and
we're doing an initial scout mission right now, but what's
unique about this mission is we're going to be
setting up a new camera trap that Mario is testing to
see if we can get some of the the Costa Rican mammal species that live on this reserve on camera. This is a Mario-centric episode. This is your day buddy. - Oh, this is my day.
- This is your day. - Man. Funny. Why am I
stuck carrying everything? Don't you have a couple of free hands. - [Coyote] I do. I have to carry the snake
hook to keep us safe, just in case something crazy happens. - Got ya. - [Coyote] I notice you've got a pretty cool shirt on though. - Oh yeah.
- Let me get a shot of this. This is your new Costa Rican
rainforest biome T-shirt. - Well, I was very
excited to actually wear this shirt in Costa Rica
because it was inspired of course by the jungles here. So there you go. Later on, we'll get some cool shots that maybe will grace
the page of "Esquire." I don't know. - Let's find a good spot that
is hopefully going to get us the unbelievable shot
of a Costa Rican mammal. (upbeat Latin music) - I think I like this
spot and I'll explain why. So we've got a trail that's
going down to the stream and then it curves up,
continues in that direction. Trails are great for people to walk on because it creates the
path of least resistance. Well guess what? Animals like that too. So this spot right here,
I think is leveled enough. So if we position the
camera trap right here, aiming in this direction of the trail, we have a chance of an animal
coming up, triggering it here. Or if the animal is coming down to potentially go to the stream to drink. So I think this is the spot. - [Coyote] Okay. With any luck, we'll catch something
pretty cool on camera. - All right, let's do it. Set up. So this is a custom built
housing by Camtraptions. That is the company that actually sent us and designed these camera
traps and housings. This thing is awesome. We're gonna put an
expensive camera in here and I'm gonna have no worries at all that it's going to get
destroyed by the environment. This is water tight. This is bug tight. So we put the camera in here and it's gonna be as
protected as possible. All right. - You good. - I need the camera. - [Coyote] camera. There it is. - What? Why is it in a Ziploc bag? - [Coyote] In case it rains.
It's not in the housing yet so I wanted to make sure it was protected. - I told you to protect
it, like cushion it, I mean that's not going
to cushion a camera. - [Coyote] Well, I didn't
bounce it around too much. I'd double check it though to
make sure that it still works. - It smells like, did you have like cookies
in here or something? - [Coyote] I did. - Oh great. Thanks. Now this is the brains
of the operation here. This is the PIR Camtraption
sensor, which is basically an infrared sensor that
detects heat off of animals. It basically will detect
if something passes by with a different ambient
temperature, body temperature, and it's gonna actually trigger the camera to take an image. The camera itself will
then trigger the flashes to illuminate the subject. We have several different
programs that we programmed into this that allows us to
only take pictures at night, because most of the
mammals here in Costa Rica are of course, nocturnal. Check this out. - [Coyote] That's me. - [Mario] That was us last
night, practicing the settings. So we used Coyote as a subject. - [Coyote] All right,
Mario, what's the next step. - The next step, one of the
most important of course is positioning the sensor. - [Coyote] So you have to
actually have something come right in front of this
for the camera to set off. - Yeah. So imagine there
is an invisible beam that's being let out and that
beam needs to be triggered. Only that beam is simply
just detecting heat. Infrared radiation. Camera is officially on. I've got a transmitter and a receiver connected to this camera. What I'm gonna do for
now is close this up. - [Coyote] All right. Our next step is the flashes, but this is one of the most
important parts isn't it? - This is certainly one of
the most important parts because at night, if you don't have lights you're not going to capture anything. So we've got these two flash units. Now here's the cool part. We have a housing for the camera
to protect it from the rain but there was no existing
housing for the flashes. And once again this is a very important aspect of camera traps. So our very own Trento he
created this amazing housing. - What does this do? Keep the flash out of the environment. - Yeah, here we go Trent. Why don't you go ahead
and put one in there. - So typically Mario they're
in PVC pipes or bags. So this here is a sealed front glass. And then when we open this here we have a complete O-ring in here. Just like the box and
it seals it completely. So these slip right in. - [Coyote] And where did these come from? - So I designed these from the bottom up, every single piece and
then 3D printed them. So believe it or not, every single piece including this front
glass is all 3D printed. So it is an exact fit. And then we make sure this seals there, put our clip on, lock it down and now it is waterproof. - Very cool.
- That's amazing. We set it and now we forget it. - Okay. Mario's camera
trap is officially set and we will leave that there
for a total of six days and then return to see if we've caught any animals on camera. It's important that we don't
come back down into this area and disturb it too much. That'll give us the
better chance of something not picking up our scent. And hopefully we will get something cool. Will it be a jaguar? Will it be an ocelot? Anything's possible out here
in the jungles of Costa Rica. Okay guys, it's been six
days since the camera trap has been out waiting for our return. Now what we can do is
make the long hike down and cross our fingers. - Okay everything is in place. Clearly it is not taking pictures. That's good, because we only programmed it to take pictures at night. - [Coyote] Look at this. - There's a burrow there, it looks like there's
less leaves around this. I wonder if something came out of there? A mammal or something like that and maybe scurried
around in front of this. - This is it. I mean, should I just go for it? - [Coyote] Go for it, man. It's like Christmas.
This is your big present. Is there anything on that memory card? Is there going to be a melanistic jaguar? - So the camera housing worked flawlessly. Is the camera actually still on? It is. - [Coyote] Okay. So
the battery didn't die. - Battery did not die. - [Coyote] That's one good step. - Okay. Ready?
- Yeah. Yeah. - Oh my God. - [Coyote] What? - Oh my God. - [Coyote] For real, there's
really something there. - Dude we got an ocelot. - [Coyote] What?
(Mario laughs) For real? Are you kidding? - No. Look, we got an ocelot. - No way. Oh my gosh. That is an ocelot. Oh my gosh dude. That
is an amazing picture. Hold on a second. - [Mario] That's an ocelot. - Oh, we got an ocelot on the camera. Are you kidding me. - Dude it stays in front
here for a little bit. And it's like investigating. Oh that's a smoky jungle frog. - [Coyote] What? - That little burrow. - [Coyote] Smoky jungle
frog came out of here? - [Mario] Yeah look, there's
a little smoky jungle frog. - Okay, an ocelot and a
smoky jungle frog so far. This is getting better and better. - We got the ocelot again. - [Coyote] Again! No way. Hold on, let me see. - [Mario] We got him leaving. - [Coyote] Oh, he came
back down the trail. - [Mario] That's a male. - [Coyote] Oh yeah.
There's his ocelot berries. - And that's it.
- That's it? - That's it. - Ah, dude. An ocelot. Boom! Wow! I cannot believe it. I mean, it's not a melanistic jaguar, but that's kind of like one in a zillion, but an ocelot is like the next best thing we could have gotten, I cannot
believe that, an ocelot. What are you feeling right now? The camera trap worked. Tell us about it. - I feel, I guess a sense of relief that our hard work paid off and it worked and of course Camtraptions did their part. Everything worked perfectly
from their systems and we have the proof of an ocelot. - [Coyote] Wow, unbelievable. We've got an episode. - Do you know what would be cool? - [Coyote] What? - What if we print out a few of these. Give it away to the audience. - Ooh. I like where
you're going with that. Let's get ourselves composed. We'll do a proper outro. Yes. Yeah. We got an ocelot guys. This has been such an epic day. Love you, Costa Rica. Man that's awesome. - What a success? We caught an ocelot on camera. Big thanks to Camptraptions for providing us with all this equipment. We could not have done it without them. - If you guys would like
to win an autographed print of the ocelot, read this
videos About section for details on how to win. Good luck everyone. I'm Coyote Peterson. - I'm Mario Aldecoa. - Be brave. - Stay wild. - We'll see on the next adventure. Dude. That was awesome.
- Whoo, we got it.
