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Smithsonian scientists use technology to track animals

Tracking units on the shell of a wood turtle. The tracking information these GPS units collect is used to understand how wood turtles move throughout the year. Image credit: Smithsonian's Movement of ...
EurekAlert!

vmTracking enables highly accurate multi-animal pose tracking in crowded environments

Conventional markerless tracking methods struggle with body part misestimations or missing estimates in crowded spaces. In vmTracking, markerless multi-animal tracking is performed on a video ...
Outdoor Life

Identifying Animal Tracks — A Complete Guide

Animal tracks are a key component to successfully watching, scouting, hunting, tracking, and photographing different wildlife species. If you want to know where the animals are, you often need to ...
The Conversation

The internet of animals? An inside account of an ambitious plan to track animal movements across the globe

Paul McGreevy has received funding from the Australian Research Council and RSPCA Australia. The Internet of Animals is a clever, tempting book title and author Martin Wikelski draws us in with the ...
The Conversation

Introducing a new way to track animals in the deep blue

The study was funded by Eawag, using data made available via the Movement Ecology of Flapper Skate project. Data collection was funded by the Marine Directorate, NatureScot and the Marine Alliance for ...