From Rene Barthel
Instead of waiting on artificial intelligence to analyse data gathered by animal reality-TV cameras (19 January, p 22) why not use human intelligence, which is already available – and much of which is wasted in watching human reality-TV shows? If you put the raw footage online with some instructions, you might be surprised how many people would enjoy helping to analyse it.
They won’t all be top-class biologists, but with some wiki-like tools and a forum I can imagine watching Animal Reality becoming pretty popular. You might even trigger some fun competition to find interesting bits of behaviour.
Utrecht, The Netherlands
