Gerald Cross, PhD, professor of anthropology at West Central university in London, crouched down to utilise the protection afforded him by the overgrown thicket hedges which banked the far end of the field. He carefully removed his camera equipment, including the night-vision scope lens, from its purpose-built case and laid it all out on the picnic blanket to ensure that everything was in situ.
As dusk began to settle, he wanted to make sure that he had all he needed close at hand to ensure he would not have to fumble around in the darkness and waste valuable time trying to locate a particular object.
The digital recording equipment that he had borrowed from one of his colleagues at the university, was already set up in place, with the remote microphones strategically placed around the e
