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Animal movement technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of wildlife, revealing insights like migration patterns, key corridors, and the impacts of mounting pressures on natural systems. As we continue to develop these tools and work toward translating movement data into actionable insights, coordination between efforts is essential. This group is a place for the animal movement community to connect and discuss our efforts to advance the field.

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Snake telemetry?

P_Hennessey

18 May 2016 6:52pm

Hi Guys, I am currently a zoology undergraduate at Queen Marys London, and was just wondering if there is much use of telemetry still within herpetology; specifically snakes. I...

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Text Messages from Teenage Gannets

WILDLABS Team

25 April 2016 12:00am

How do new colonies come about? And why do we observe young colonies to grow much more rapidly than their own production of chicks would allow them to? As Jana W. E. Jeglinski explains, cutting edge developments of...

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Request for GPS based animal movement data

Gautam Shah

11 March 2016 8:26am

Hello WildLabs community, My organization is called Internet of Elephants and we are a start up social enterprise working on innovative approaches to use tech and data to...

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Jason VanHorn

13 April 2016 4:27pm

Gautam,

You can join ebird.org and make a request to download their data that contains GPS data for birds. 

Jason

John Probert

13 April 2016 4:50pm

There's also movebank, which is a repository fo wildlife tracking information. 

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GPS carrying vultures are being used to detect illegal dumps in Peru

John Probert

22 February 2016 4:28pm

Fascinating story here about using GPS equipped vultures to find illegal dumping grounds in Peru. It's great to see how this project is changing previous perceptions of these...

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Adam Bloch

2 March 2016 7:27am

The police have tried to use New World Vultures to find dead bodies in Europe. The success was some what limited but not the fault of the birds.

This does open up a whole area of questions about the use of birds and some of the Unforeseen consequences. The latest amazingly stupid idea of using Eagles to bring down drones that was/is being considered by the British police after the Dutch police showed a video of a Juvenile Bald Eagle doing the same. The vultures that are now being deliberately killed in Africa because naturally they are giving away the location of a poached elephant or Rhino. The poor Griffon Vultures that keep being arrested as spies in the middle east as they have rings that have come from Israel on there legs.

There are quite often side effects to these uses of birds that are unforeseen at the out set but usually end up cost the animal involved. 

 

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Help needed engineering solar/battery system for tracking collar

Dave Cortright

23 November 2015 6:41pm

Greetings, I have a couple of colleagues who is working on a next generation tracking collar for painted dogs and elephant seals. The electronics are all designed, but...

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Dave Cortright

9 February 2016 10:19pm

This sounds very relevant. I'll pass along to my colleagues.  Thanks for sharing, @jprobert and @mygshah !

John Probert

23 February 2016 7:24pm

@Dave any updates on this project?

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