Aug 31, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Tracking the behaviour of a large number of juvenile green turtles in contrasting environments using satellite telemetry enables to show behavioural differences across individuals. The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) is one of the seven species of sea turtles (with...
Aug 17, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Ruddy-headed goose is considered regionally endangered in Argentina and Chile, since recent estimates indicate that population size is less than 800 individuals. Ruddy-headed geese were tracked back and forth during their migrations over the South American continent...
Aug 3, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Dolphins do have a nightlife, but visual observation techniques cannot fully capture this. Also, coastal populations of dolphins sometimes occupy complex, labyrinthine habitats. Here too line-of-sight techniques fall short. Satellite telemetry doesn’t distinguish...
Jul 20, 2020 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Argos can help in evaluating overlaps of human activities and protected aquatic bird habitats. With that information, the planning of new infrastructures such as offshore wind farms can take species like the red-throated divers in consideration. Wind farms on...
Jul 10, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
An essential part of animal conservation is knowing and understanding their behavior. More than 500 turtles are tracked every month with Argos so that scientists can identify feeding and nesting areas as well as understand their migratory patterns. We know where sea...
Jul 6, 2020 | Marine Animals, News, Oceanography, Meteorology, Hydrology, Climatology, Wildlife Monitoring
Data collected on animals by Argos satellite telemetry can be provided to physical oceanography, to fill in a number of gaps in the ocean observing systems. A study details how animal-born instrumentation can complement the Argo automated profiling float array....
