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 ...

Tracking animals from space using dedicated small satellites—that’s the goal of the global research initiative ICARUS. Plus: ...

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 ...

Studying the social behavior of animals in their natural environments is necessary for advancing our understanding of ...

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 ...

It could have been a scene from a “Fargo”-style crime drama: A frozen body partially protruding from a frozen pond. A group of investigators, with tape measures and cameras, studying footprints in the ...

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 ...

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 ...