Animal tracking methods encompass a range of technologies and analytical approaches used to monitor the spatial and temporal movements of individual animals or populations. Techniques include conventional tagging, radio telemetry (VHF), satellite telemetry (e.g., Argos, GPS), biologging (accelerometers, depth sensors, temperature, heart rate), and automated detection systems such as passive integrated transponders (PIT) and camera traps. Data from these devices are integrated with geographic information systems (GIS), state-space models, and movement ecology frameworks to infer habitat use, migration routes, behavior, and responses to environmental variation, enabling quantitative assessments of spatial ecology, demography, and conservation status.
Flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius), the world's largest skate species measuring over two meters in length, live hidden on the rugged seabed around Scotland. Their life in the darkness, deep underwater, makes it extremely ...
Plants & Animals
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They say an elephant never forgets—and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones. Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be surprisingly elephant-friendly and a valuable research tool. Previously, ...
Ecology
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At a time when millions of Americans have turkey on their minds, a team of researchers led by an animal scientist at Penn State has successfully tested a new way for poultry producers to keep their turkeys in sight.
Biotechnology
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A map of badger roadkill hotspots in the UK has been generated by a team from Cardiff University to help prevent wildlife-vehicle collisions in the future.
Plants & Animals
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People hunting for Bigfoot use sophisticated techniques for collecting and validating evidence, drawing on scientific methods to try and prove its existence, research shows.
Paleontology & Fossils
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After a three-year pause, Icarus, the pioneering project that tracks wildlife from space, is set to resume operations. On 11 November 2025, a rocket is scheduled to carry a satellite equipped with the Icarus receiver into ...
Planetary Sciences
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A high-tech, no-fence solution is teaching cattle to stay home on the range, University of Alberta research has found.
Ecology
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A decade-long study recently published in the journal Northeastern Naturalist found that 352 wild bee species call Vermont home, with 60% of those species likely in need of conservation action.
Plants & Animals
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The common weasel, stoat, and European polecat may be silently disappearing from the Dutch landscape. At least, that is what biologists suspect. These animals are so elusive and difficult to study that we actually know very ...
Plants & Animals
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Researchers have for the first time closely tracked the fine-scale diving behavior of two species of sea snakes that forage along the seafloor and discovered that one species performs a curious wiggle while traveling underwater.
Plants & Animals
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