Animals are unwitting citizen scientists when they carry animal-borne sensors. They can gather environmental data we can't otherwise get.
This map shows how elephants moved across Kruger National Park in South Africa over one year. Image Credit: Thaker, M., et al.
The first animal tracker was probably just a piece of coloured string. In 1803, American Naturalist John Audobon wanted to know if birds migrated and returned to the same place yearly. So he attached a piece of string around a bird’s leg before it flew south for the winter. Next spring, he spotted the bird and knew it had returned to the same place.
A 130-pound wolf watches biologists in Yellowstone National Park after being captured and fitted with a radio collar on 1-9-03. Tracking wolves as they move through their territory can also tell researchers about the environmental and climate conditions that motivate their movements. Image Credit: By William C. Campbell – U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.
These two maps show satellite temperature data and elephant location and temperature data from ABSs. Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and elephant-borne sensor data from Thaker, M. et al. .
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