Animals, get your best pose ready.

The University of Michigan is snapping pictures of wild animals in an effort to document how populations of meat-eating animals vary across terrain, according to a press release.

Photographs are being taken in three areas: The U-M Biological Station, the upper peninsula and a wildlife refuge near Saginaw.

"We're really interested in understanding how species vary across space, their different behaviors, what they're eating, the type of parasites that they have," University of Michigan wildlife ecologist Nyeema Harris says in a University of Michigan video. "Our first question is 'is the species there?'"

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