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

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 ...

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 ...

Winter offers a unique window into the hidden lives of animals, and local naturalist Norm Gregoire says snow-covered ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our shared world. There was something strange about 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 ...