Camera-trap observations and failure

There were four camera trap failures in the honey-baited survey and five camera trap failures in the fish-baited survey, resulting in 1039 and 1067 trap nights respectively. ‘Failures’ were mechanical, of various durations, and attributed to camera malfunction. We recorded 1134 sugar glider videos in total (honey bait n = 79; fish bait n = 1055). Sugar gliders were identifiable in 80.7% of observations (n=915) and we omitted 19.3% of observations where identity was uncertain. Identified gliders stayed within the selfie-trap for more than 10 minutes in 29% of observations. Non-target species observed sampling bait were brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula and green rosellas Platycercus caledonicus .