Animal Monitoring

Currently, scientists are out in the world, all over the world, observing animals in their natural habitat.  How are they doing it?  Well, some definitely follow Jane's path of observation and journaling, but it goes so much further than that!  Scientists today are using technology to help understand the natural patterns of even the most elusive animals in the world and today we are going to explore this topic.
Today we'll focus on:

• radio telemetry
• motion sensitive cameras
• GPS
• all in relationship to species survival plans created by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association