Capture frequencies
More sugar gliders were detected, and more often, in the fish baited
survey than the honey baited survey (Fig. S3.). The honey-baited survey
recorded 13 detections of six unique gliders at five camera-traps on six
different nights. No cameras were visited until the
17th night of the honey-baited survey and a second
individual was not observed until the 25th night.
Three cameras were triggered once and two cameras were visited between
two and six times. Of the six sugar gliders, three were observed once
and none more than four times.
The fish-baited survey recorded 300 detections of 17 unique gliders at
23 cameras over 30 nights. All 17 individuals were observed at least
once by the eighth night. Gliders visited cameras an average of 13.35
times (±8.3 S.D.) across the survey. Unique sugar gliders observed per
night ranged between one and ten individuals (mean 5.1 ± 2.4 S.D.).
Gliders were recorded a median of five times, and one glider was
observed nearly twice more often (102 unique detections) than other
highly active individuals (57-62 unique detections) (Figure S3).
Our estimated incidence rates for trapping success using the fish-bait
(0.22, [95% C.I. 0.20, 0.24]) were nearly triple the mean rate
observed across literature (0.08 [95% C.I. 0.05, 0.13]) (Fig. S1).
The estimated incidence rate of unique captures of 0.02 [95% C.I.
0.01, 0.02] using fish-bait was equal to the mean from the literature.
In contrast, our observed incidence rates using the honey-bait were
lower than the mean from the literature for both trapping success (0.01
[95% C.I. 0.00, 0.02]) and capture rates (0.01 [95% C.I.
0,0.01]).