johanna turner is a sound effects editor for universal studios. on her own time, she's one of several citizen scientists, as they're called, who put remote cameras up in the wild, hoping to get that perfect shot. how do you know where to look? >> johanna turner: we'll look for tracks and we'll look for signs of them. and we look for deer, because that's their food source. >> whitaker: to lure the lions into camera range, she'll sprinkle catnip, vanilla branch. and just like housecats, they love it. the holy grail is a shot like this one of p-41. but her cameras also catch bobcats, coyotes, foxes and bears-- trouble-makers. >> turner: you come and find that a bear has, you know, turned the camera sideways or licked the lens or something. and that happens weekly. >> whitaker: what's the most amazing thing you've seen? >> turner: my favorite is a video of a female mountain lion and her two kittens, and they're nursing on her. i still can't believe that happened, that she decided to lay down right in the front of the camera. >> whitaker: science is le

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