‘Smart Collar’ in the Works to Manage Wildlife Better
If a sampling of animals that lions or wolves prey on, like deer or elk, could be added into the mix with monitoring collars of their own, scientists said they envision a new way of thinking about landscapes in general. With data flowing about both predators and prey, national park or wilderness managers might one day be able, over morning coffee at their desks, to predict a kind of calorie-budget that might unfold that day for the ecosystems they oversee: who might eat and be eaten, and where both sides might go, driven by survival instinct or hunger.
via nytimes.com
