Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers are still working to get more detailed information to better combat ...

Researchers developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking which they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. They have thus taken an important step ...

J.T. Beggs leads an exercise in experiencing animal movements. J.T. Beggs scampered across the sand on his hands and knees, imitating the trot of a coyote. Behind him, a group of UC Santa Cruz ...

Somewhere over the North Sea, a barn swallow weighing less than a AA battery is carrying a transmitter the size of a ...

Rock faces in Namibia are decorated with hundreds of stone-age images not only of animals and human footprints, but also of animal tracks. These have been largely neglected to date as researchers ...

One winter several years ago, I conducted one of my weekend retreats at a conference center in western Massachusetts. When I arrived, I heard about another retreat being offered there the same weekend ...

And some see the new snow as being a template to tell us about the activities of local wildlife, much of which we do not see. This is a good time for getting out in the snow to find animal tracks ...

Two pigeons are pecking grains in a park in Konstanz. A third pigeon flies in. There are four cameras in the immediate vicinity. Doctoral students Alex Chan and Urs Waldmann from the Cluster of ...