Kirk Johnson for The New York Times Aug 29 2011 Photo: Mathew Staver
"Lisa Wolfe, a veterinarian at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, fed and monitored Rascal on Monday as he walked on the treadmill. And in the same way that the smartphone changed human communications, what might be called the “smart collar” — measuring things that people never could before about how animals move and eat and live their lives — could fundamentally transform how wild populations are managed, and imagined, biologists and wildlife managers say.
The collars, in development in academia and intended for commercial production in the next few years, use a combination of global positioning technology and accelerometers for measuring an animal’s metabolic inner life in leaping, running or sleeping. From the safari parks of Africa to urbanized zones on the edge of wildlands across the American West — places where widespread interest in the devices has already been voiced, scientists said — the mysteries of the wild might never be the same.…
"…Colorado’s Parks and Wildlife commissioner, Robert G. Streeter, who was here for Monday’s treadmill tests, said that social networking sites might be incorporated into the new human-wild interface as well, with data from the collars posted online as it comes in.…"
“We could put up a Facebook account for each animal,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/30collars.html?_r=1&hpw
2 comments:
I remember when 1984 came and went and everyone said look we are still "free". BTW corporate employees are routinely monitored by the GPS in their badges. The can't spend too much time in the rest room, lunch rooms or leave the premises. Any "uncorporate" behavior is brought to a supervisors attention. And now we are monitoring the poor animals. It's time for changes. sorry about the run on comment. Best Regards
Yes, the collars should definitely be put on the researchers...the mysteries of the idiotic notion that we can understand things wild might never be the same
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