Tagging wildlife alters animal behavior for days, reports new research. The findings highlight a need for longer tracking periods to better understand animal behavior in the wild. The corresponding ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

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 ...

When the next pandemic threat looms, help may come from an unexpected source: wild animals. In a new study led by Prof. Ran Nathan from the Movement Ecology Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...

In their review, the team demonstrates how biologgers can be a powerful tool for testing hypotheses and refining theories via case studies of elephant seals, whooping cranes, and mule deer. These case ...

Wildlife monitors working in Bengkulu, Indonesia, have identified 42 distinct Sumatran tigers through a tracking program that lasted five years, reported ANTARA News.

Scientists studying migrations, endangered species, and global change are placing tracking devices on thousands of animals that will be monitored by a satellite-based system set to launch next year.

If only black-footed ferrets had a brand ambassador like groundhogs have in Punxsutawney Phil. The endangered ferrets don’t quite feel the same love as the famous groundhog, but they do get a little ...

Sophie Mazowita, 38, can look at a snowy hillside and see stories of the wild animals that have walked it. Born in Canada, Mazowita came to Vermont in 2011 to earn a master’s degree in the Field ...